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Canada defends arrest of Huawei exec as markets wobble

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"We have made solemn representations to Canada and the U.S., demanding that both parties immediately clarify the reasons for the detention, and immediately release the detainee to protect the person's legal rights,"

Communist China is talking about peoples human rights being violated? What a joke, there are millions of political prisoners in PRC who have zero rights. I say good job Trump for directly ordering this arrest. PRC had not been granted an exemption for dealing with Iran, so arrest is legal.

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Communist China is talking about peoples human rights being violated? What a joke, there are millions of political prisoners in PRC who have zero rights. I say good job Trump for directly ordering this arrest. PRC had not been granted an exemption for dealing with Iran, so arrest is legal.

100% Agreed!

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I say good job Trump for directly ordering this arrest. 

This just didn’t happen.

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Huawei equipment has been on the US "avoid" list since March of this year.

ZTE and Huawei phones were previously caught sending data to China in 2016, including the full text of all text messages. https://www.channelnews.com.au/secret-chinese-code-that-sends-information-back-to-china-found-on-huawei-and-zte-phones/

The software, which collects location data and contacts and call history, sends the information to a Chinese company called Shanghai Adups Technology every 72 hours without the owner knowing.

China has been holding 3 family members, wife and 3 kids, who committed no crime in China and are US citizens since June attempting to coerce their father to return to China. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/25/us/politics/china-exit-ban.html

China needs to let these people return home.

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Why is it that any decision by US to sanction companies or countries for doing business with Iran automatically becomes international law, warranting the arrest and extradition of a person suspected of breaking that US rule. It's not like she committed a war crime or human trafficking.

I agree that China has a poor human rights record, but as Burning Bush stated, it's not by arresting their citizens that we show them how wrong they were.

I have rarely or never sided with China on this forum in the past, but this time I certainly do.

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it matters not if they are called communist or not. They allowed to be forced by the westen evil empires in to becoming de facto capitalist and they do it all as requested by propaganda and pressure from the west requested. American way is to have dead bodies of the opponents found in the parks and closets while Russians have them die in jail of loneliness and remorse, Chinese keep the locked up and make no sekret of it. But our Canadian politicians keep licking the American derrieres and definitely do not execute the wishes of majority of Canadians. Arresting one person after another and accusing countries by blindly repeating USA opinions and demands is not the real Canadian way. And here we see only the comments of China haters who probably have hard time walking through their homes without tripping over their hoardings of cheap Chinese products.

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China should relax over this issue. The US is just going to "re-educate" Mrs Meng in one of it's new Re-education camps that are modeled after the Chinese version. Once China is informed of this I am sure they will enthusiastically agree that no rights have been breached and that Mrs Meng is being treated more than fairly.

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He said he was not sure whether Trump -- who had trumpeted his summit with Xi as "amazing and productive" as he flew back to Washington -- was also aware.

So while Trump was discussing a trade deal with China and trumpeting it to the world, the Justice department was planning something which could derail the whole thing.

"These kinds of things happen with some frequency. We certainly don't inform the president on every one of them," he said of the arrest.

Didn't they think that something which would send the stock markets tumbling, was not 'every one of them'.

There is just so much of animal waste coming out of this administration , we need to figure out a way to use it for energy generation.

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When humans of nation 1 are arrested and extradited from nation 2 to nation 3 as a result of nation 3's adversarial foreign policy towards nation 4, no humans in any nations are safe when traveling internationally.

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Oops. Sorry - 3 family members, wife and 2 kids.

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With China demanding the release of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said officers who arrested her Saturday as she was changing planes in Vancouver had acted on their own.

Where was she going? Where was she coming from?

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According to news on other web sites. She was using a Canadian passport and she is a Canadian citizen. Some says that Canadian police cannot arrest her if she is holding a foreign passport. Many online comments in China says it is not uncommon for top officals of big Chinese companys holding dual citizenships.

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According to the Wall Street Journals it seems as if she had been money laundering and going against US sanctions through HSBC and HSBC had reported to the US Authorities which resulted in the arrest.

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That war criminals (Like Bush) and worse (Netanyahu) travel to Canada without worry, but someone who's 'crime' is to trade with a peaceful democratic country that the US holds a grudge against (Iran) has to worry about arrest is a black mark against my Canada.

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