CHINA SAYS US SHOULD WITHDRAW ARREST WARRANT FOR HUAWEI EXECUTIVE

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The foreign ministry in China has called on the US ambassador to lodge a “strong protest” over the arrest in Canada of Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s chief financial officer, and said the United States should withdraw its arrest warrant.

Huawei’s global chief financial officer – Meng Wanzhou was arrested on 1st December after it is alleged that she covered up her company’s links to a firm that tried to sell equipment to Iran despite sanctions. She is also the daughter of the founder of Huawei.

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng told US ambassador Terry Branstad that the United States had made an “unreasonable demand” on Canada when they asked the country to detain Meng while she was passing through Vancouver, China’s Foreign Ministry said.

“The actions of the US seriously violated the lawful and legitimate rights of the Chinese citizen, and by their nature were extremely nasty,” Le told Branstad, comments similar to those he made to Canada’s ambassador the night before.

Furthermore, China has asked that the United States pay attention to China’s solemn and just position and withdraw the arrest warrant on Meng, Le added.

“China will respond further depending on US actions,” he said, without elaborating.

Le also told the Canadian ambassador on Saturday that there would be severe consequences if it did not immediately release Meng.

 

-EWN

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