{"id":388331,"date":"2018-12-08T17:36:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T16:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-kidnapping-of-huawei-executive-meng-wanzhou\/"},"modified":"2018-12-08T17:36:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T16:36:07","slug":"the-kidnapping-of-huawei-executive-meng-wanzhou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-kidnapping-of-huawei-executive-meng-wanzhou\/","title":{"rendered":"The kidnapping of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>The kidnapping of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    8 December 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>On Wednesday, the world was shocked to learn that Canadian authorities had arrested and confined without bail Meng Wanzhou, the deputy chairperson of the Chinese smart phone giant Huawei, on charges brought by US prosecutors of violating American sanctions against Iran. Washington is calling for her extradition to the US.<\/p>\n<p>The claims by US officials that the move has \u201cnothing to do with a trade war\u201d are transparent lies, dismissed even by the media defenders of the action. Meng\u2019s arrest on December 1 and confinement on tendentious and opaque charges potentially carrying a sentence of 60 years amount to little more than a kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p>The British <em>Financial Times<\/em>, obviously unnerved by its ally\u2019s action, called the move \u201cprovocative,\u201d describing it as \u201cthe use of American power to pursue political and economic ends rather than straightforward law enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is, in other words, an act of gangsterism, intended to send a message to \u201callies\u201d and \u201cenemies\u201d alike: do the United States\u2019 bidding or you will end up like Meng, or worse. In pursuit of its geopolitical aims, the United States functions as a rogue state, violating international law with wanton abandon.<\/p>\n<p>It is the chief protagonist in an international descent into lawlessness that recalls the conditions of great power conflict and criminality that led to World War II. The US imposes unilateral and illegal sanctions on any country it deems an obstacle to its hegemonic agenda, and then employs the methods of terror to punish those who defy its dictates.<\/p>\n<p>But after news of Meng\u2019s arrest stunned the world, the <em>New York Times<\/em> dropped another bombshell the next morning. As Donald Trump was sitting down to dinner with Chinese President&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/12\/08\/pers-d07.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The kidnapping of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou 8 December 2018 On Wednesday, the world was shocked to learn that Canadian authorities had arrested and confined without bail Meng Wanzhou, the deputy chairperson of the Chinese smart phone giant Huawei, on charges brought by US prosecutors of violating American sanctions against Iran. Washington is calling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-388331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}