China releases two Canadians after Huawei chief financial officer returns, ending crisis

In a sudden resolution to a diplomatic crisis between the United States, China and Canada, a senior Huawei Technologies Co. executive returned home as China freed two imprisoned Canadians. For nearly three years, Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou was under house arrest in Vancouver as she fought extradition to the United States for fraud. Across the Pacific, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor - detained a few days after Meng's arrest in December 2018 - languished in Chinese prisons, pawns caught in a geopolitical rivalry between the United States and China. The seemingly intractable standoff was quickly resolved on Friday…