Meng is being given very good security protection. It appears she is not confined to her home. In 45 days there has been no request filed by the US for her extradition. There is only 9 working days left in which to make such application.
Xi has indicated China will increase purchases of US products. In the same interval of the announcement the US may not get the extradition request filing done. This would create grounds for Canada to set her free. As technically the time period expired.
Remember what President Trump said ? It is possible he could find a way for her release. With so much happening in the US will the papers get filed will it get done ?
Most likely, every one walks away happily accomplishing their end goals. The public in each country is proud their leaders a won the battle. Meng spends time in Canada carrying out renovations and other details. All the while the Canadian Government supposedly delicately walks a tight wire trying not to offend either side. Just adhering to international protocol.
The end game is, Canada fearlessly stands up to the USA and bravely releases Meng, China claims the threats of pressure worked. So there is no longer reason to be at odds with the Canadian Govt. The US claims superior trade deal than previously.
And the gullible public can't see through all the smoke which was created. One way or another the outcome will most likely be friendly.
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At first glance, life on the 4000-block of West 28th Avenue is calm, quiet and completely characteristic of Vancouver’s sleepy Dunbar neighbourhood.
Until you look a little closer and watch a little longer, it is hard to spot clues that a resident in a home on that street sits at the heart of a high-stakes diplomatic and legal row that has erupted among Canada, China, and the U.S. It is a dispute that involves international trade negotiations, economic sanctions, the freedoms of one woman and two men, and perhaps even the life of another man.
The tells begin when you notice the rotating cast of SUVs — Cadillac Escalades and a pair of Jeeps chief among them — that are parked 24 hours a day, every day, within view of the front entryway of a $5.6 million corner lot house on 28th or outside a garage in the alley around back. Inside the often idling vehicles are watchful guards employed by Lions Gate Risk Management Group, a private security firm.
Inside the home during almost all hours of the day, equipped with a GPS ankle bracelet, is Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies, who is facing U.S. charges in connection to alleged violations of trade sanctions on Iran. Meng is out on bail while she awaits her next court appearance on Feb. 6. and eventually the conclusion of an extradition process that could take months or even years.
The terms of Meng’s $10 million bail restrict her travel to Vancouver, Richmond and parts of the North Shore between the hours of 6 a.m. and 11 p.m. But for two days earlier this week, the security guards needed hardly leave their vehicles to ensure Meng did not violate those terms.
They spent their days speaking to one another through two-way radios, periodically peering through a gate at the side of the house, keeping track of the arrivals and departures of approved visitors in a log book that was often placed at the front door, and intervening when strangers approached the house.
On Wednesday, the guards approved the entry of four men who delivered from a pair of Paramount Home Design moving trucks two grey, round backed couches and a metal end table. Later, they watched as a separate group of men left Meng’s home carrying a rolled up rug.
The guards seemed friendly and jovial. They joked with Postmedia about not expecting much to happen, but they would not say whether Meng tended to leave the house much.
The reporters said Meng had slipped into a chauffeured black SUV when she left her home. That may have been the same chauffeured black Chevrolet Suburban that this week drove several of Meng’s family members, friends or associates to and from her home, ostensibly in prior communication with the guards outside. When guards left their vehicles and walked to the front door it tended to be a reliable indicator that an arrival or departure was about to occur.
Meng did not appear to leave her home during daylight hours Wednesday. She stayed inside, dressed in light pants and a peach zip-up sweater, and made only brief appearances when from time to time she opened the door for her approved guests.
Many people who walk or drive by slow down to gaze on Meng’s house, apparently aware of its occupant. At one point this week a supporter arrived with a letter for Meng that the guards encouraged her to leave in a mailbox at the edge of the property.
Even as Meng is in the midst of redecorating her home on 28th Ave., she is renovating another home on Matthews Ave. in Shaughnessy, where a truck from a high-end closet designer was parked outside recently. Meng’s husband Xiaozong Liu has owned that property since 2016, when it was purchased for $15 million.
.For her part, Meng has hinted at how she’d like to spend her time during what could be a years-long ordeal.
She’d like to apply for a PhD in business administration at the University of British Columbia, whose campus sits near her home. In an awkward twist, the school is receiving $3 million from Huawei to fund research on 5G — the next-generation mobile network technology that the U.S. wants to block the company from developing.
While China has been critical of Meng’s arrest and its foreign ministry’s consular affairs office recently published a notice saying that Canada had “arbitrarily detained” her.
Ren Zhengfei, the founder of Huawei and Meng’s father, has thanked Canada’s justice system for kind treatment of his daughter. He has told reporters he believes there will be a just conclusion to her case.
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I would suggest there is much of this never meets the public eye.
Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co., leaving her home while out on bail in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019
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