China urges release of Huawei executive on two-year anniversary

Dec. 1 (UPI) — China called for the release of Huawei’s chief financial officer on the two-year anniversary of her arrest at Vancouver International Airport, while dismissing the Chinese imprisonment of two Canadians as an “entirely different” matter. Beijing’s foreign ministry claimed Tuesday that the Canadian detention of Meng Wanzhou , 48, is part of a larger U.S. conspiracy to impede China’s tech industry. Advertisement “The Meng Wanzhou case is a serious political incident,” Chinese spokeswoman Hua Chunying said. “The U.S. government’s deliberation and action on it are not out of any legal cause, but out of the agenda to…