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To: TobagoJack who wrote (165719)	12/4/2020 4:13:30 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217615

Hey hey my my U.S. Is Said in Talks to Resolve Charges Against Huawei’s CFO ["https://t.co/5PfVP5IPwF"] — Bernard Wong 黃天民 (@TheSpottedCat) December 4, 2020 Oh Mr. Trudeau.. I told u so lol

To: TobagoJack who wrote (165719)	9/25/2021 10:21:53 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217615

As I thought, a welcome home for a heroine Message 33073586 bloomberg.com Huawei CFO Meng Getting Hero’s Welcome on Return to China September 25, 2021, 9:53 PM GMT+8 China prepared to give a hero’s welcome to Huawei Technologies Co.’s Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou as she returned to the country three years after her arrest in Canada. Meng was due to land in Shenzhen, where Huawei is based, around 10 p.m. local time and her plane’s flight trajectory was hashtagged on the Chinese social media site Weibo, indicating netizens there are anxiously waiting her arrival. At about 6 p.m, the Ping’an Finance Center in Shenzhen, the city’s tallest building, was scrolling “Welcome Home, Meng Wanzhou.” across its facade, according to a Weibo post by Shenzhen TV. Meanwhile the state broadcaster is covering her arrival live, showing scenes of runways at Shenzhen Bao’an airport, hours before her landing. Meng boarded an Air China plane on Friday to return to Shenzhen after striking a deferred prosecution agreement with U.S. authorities to resolve criminal charges against her. She had been under house arrest in Vancouver for almost three years as she battled extradition to the U.S. on fraud charges. “Facts have long proved that this is a political persecution against a Chinese citizen with the aim to oppress China’s high-tech companies,” the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement. “The ‘fraud’ accusations against Ms. Meng are nothing but fabrication.” READ: U.S. Move to End Huawei Saga Improves China Ties - at a Cost (1) The subject of Meng’s return was trending on Chinese social media Saturday, attracting more than 110 million views on the country’s Weibo. An opinion piece to be published by the official People’s Daily on Sunday will call Meng’s return a triumph for the Chinese people, CCTV reported late Saturday. The article, to be titled, “No Force Will Prevent China’s Progress,” will say the peaceful return of Meng shows the lasting strength of China’s Communist Party and the country’s 1.4 billion people. In a post on her Wechat account reported by state media, Meng called China her backbone and said her freedom was thanks to a powerful home nation. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian also wrote “Welcome Home” in a Weibo post. As part of the deal that led to Meng’s release, China set free two Canadian citizens -- Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor -- who were detained within days of Meng’s December 2018 arrest. The Two Michaels, as they came to be known, arrived in Calgary in the early hours of Saturday and were greeted by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, AFP reported. — With assistance by Sarah Chen, John Liu, and Lucille Liu Before it's here, it's on the Bloomberg Terminal. LEARN MORE Sent from my iPad

To: TobagoJack who wrote (165719)

9/25/2021 10:37:21 AM

From: TobagoJack

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Now that Meng is released by Canada, am going to guess China China China shall at some juncture take off gloves and tee-up Poland to teach that particular domain that state-sponsored kidnapping cannot be allowed to payout.

Australia? Australia can go ask for Blinken’s help, as Blinken promised he would.

All very interesting.

bloomberg.com

U.S. Move to End Huawei Saga Improves China Ties - at a Cost

September 25, 2021, 8:15 PM GMT+8
The U.S. met one of China’s key demands to improve relations with the release of a top Huawei Technologies Co. executive, paving the way for better ties at the cost of appearing to reward Beijing for what critics have called “hostage diplomacy.”

Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s chief financial officer, flew to China from Vancouver after reaching a deferred prosecution agreement with U.S. authorities to resolve criminal charges connected with American sanctions on Iran. Shortly afterward, China released two Canadian citizens -- Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor -- who were detained within days of Meng’s December 2018 arrest.

The deal comes two weeks after President Joe Biden called Chinese leader Xi Jinping in frustration over Beijing’s move to link progress on climate change with other demands, including Meng’s release as well as lifting sanctions and removing punitive tariffs. China had insisted the U.S. take the first step to improving ties, with Foreign Minister Wang Yi saying earlier this month that America “should meet China halfway.”

The agreement reached Friday appears to do just that, amounting to the biggest U.S. step in years to smooth over relations with Beijing after an onslaught of punitive measures backed with bipartisan support in Washington. Although a range of issues remain unresolved between the world’s biggest economies, one of the biggest stumbling blocks to more cooperation is now gone.

“This is a very significant move and symbolizes a new beginning for China and the U.S.,” said Henry Wang Huiyao, president and founder of the Center for China & Globalization policy research group in Beijing. “Next there could certainly be cooperation on climate change” and tariffs, he said.

Meng’s arrest in December 2018, which came on the same day Xi met with U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of a Group of 20 summit, shook elite circles in Beijing. She is the daughter of the founder of Huawei, a national champion at the forefront of Xi’s efforts for China to be self-sufficient in strategic technologies.

China treated the arrest as a national affront, quickly detaining two Canadian citizens on unspecified national security charges and lashing out at the government in Ottawa.

Authorities in Beijing repeatedly called Meng’s case “political” while insisting the Canadian detentions followed the rule of law -- all while Chinese diplomats suggested the pair would be used as bargaining chips to secure her release. The showdown cost billions of dollars in lost trade and plunged China-Canada bilateral relations to their worst point in decades.

China on Saturday reiterated its stance on the issue, saying the arrest of Meng was political persecution against Chinese citizens with a purpose to suppress Chinese high-tech companies. Allegations of fraud against Meng are purely fabricated, state broadcaster CCTV cited foreign affairs ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying as saying.

For more on the saga:

China Frees Canadians After Huawei CFO Leaves, Ending Crisis

China’s Brief Trial of Two Canadians Tightens Vise on Trudeau

Huawei CFO’s Life on Bail: Private Dining, Jet Charter and More

Trudeau Riles China 50 Years After His Father Forged Ties

U.S. prosecutors said Meng’s agreement shows she has “taken responsibility for her principal role in perpetrating a scheme to defraud a global financial institution.” The statement from Biden’s Justice Department also noted that extradition proceedings in Canada could’ve persisted for months or years.

“There are signs that the two sides no longer want to escalate, but they’re also unlikely to de-escalate,” said Shi Yinhong, professor of international relations at Beijing’s Renmin University who has advised China’s State Council. “The two sides are trying to freeze the level of tensions, and this is going to last for a rather long period of time.”

For China, beyond the insult of arresting such a high-profile figure, the case was also egregious because it showed how the U.S. could unilaterally put sanctions on an adversary and then prevent other countries from conducting normal business operations. Beijing has sought to push back more broadly against U.S. sanctions on Chinese officials, passing legislation this year that may force businesses to pick sides if implemented.

Meng’s deal was framed by U.S. prosecutors as an admission of guilt. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken avoided commenting on Meng while welcoming China’s move to send the Canadians home after more than two years of “arbitrary detention.”

The tricky questions raised by the agreement were alluded to by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who told reporters there would be “time for reflections and analysis in the coming days and weeks” while welcoming home his countrymen.

Bill Haggerty, a Republican U.S. senator from Tennessee and a former ambassador to Japan, accused Biden of “appeasement” in the face of China’s “hostage diplomacy.”

China has long rejected the label of “hostage diplomacy” as “totally groundless,” saying that no one who follows the country’s laws should fear arrest. But Beijing’s expansive definition of national security in the mainland and now Hong Kong is raising risks for foreign businesses.

Cheng Lei, an Australian citizen who worked for a Chinese media outlet, has been held since August 2020 on national security concerns. Haze Fan, a Bloomberg News staffer who is a Chinese citizen, was detained on suspicion of endangering national security last December.

For now at least, business groups are welcoming the resolution to the diplomatic spat -- even as they note the lasting damage.

“Canadian and Chinese business leaders are both going to come away from this experience with a good deal more apprehension or trepidation than they had before,” said Noah Fraser, managing director of the Canada China Business Council. “But this was a necessary first step along a road to rebuilding that confidence.”

— With assistance by Lucille Liu, Jing Li, Yuan Gao, Zheping Huang, Colum Murphy, and Sarah Chen

(Updates with CCTV report in 9th paragraph.)

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