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Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou, a Chinese citizen, was arrested in Vancouver in late 2018 on a financial institution fraud warrant issued by U.S. authorities. Meng has mentioned she is harmless and is preventing extradition in a Canadian court docket. Shortly after Meng’s arrest, Beijing detained two Canadians on nationwide safety fees and halted imports of canola seed. Tensions flared once more this week when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau mentioned he would work with allies to battle China’s “coercive diplomacy.†He warned that arbitrary arrests, repression in Hong Kong and placing Muslim minorities in detention camps added as much...
