{"id":389016,"date":"2018-12-13T16:57:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T15:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/huawei-executives-arrest-provokes-anti-us-protests-in-china\/"},"modified":"2018-12-13T16:57:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T15:57:09","slug":"huawei-executives-arrest-provokes-anti-us-protests-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/huawei-executives-arrest-provokes-anti-us-protests-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Huawei executive\u2019s arrest provokes anti-US protests in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Huawei executive\u2019s arrest provokes anti-US protests in China<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Peter Symonds<br \/>\n    <br \/>13 December 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Canada\u2019s arrest of Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of the Chinese tech giant Huawei, has provoked outrage in China. Meng was released on bail on harsh and humiliating conditions on Tuesday after 10 days in detention. She faces extradition to the United States on two fraud charges, each carrying jail terms of up to 30 years. She is due back in court on February 6 for extradition proceedings that could last for months.<\/p>\n<p>Meng is accused of misleading American financial institutions into allowing transactions involving the sale of goods to Iran banned under US sanctions. Meng\u2019s detention is part of a far broader US campaign, under both the Obama and Trump administrations, aimed at undermining Huawei and other Chinese tech companies.<\/p>\n<p>The political character of Meng\u2019s arrest was underscored by US President Donald Trump\u2019s comments to Reuters, which made clear her fate was a bargaining chip in US-China trade relations. Trump declared he would \u201ccertainly intervene\u201d in the case if he thought it was \u201cgood for what will be certainly the largest trade deal ever made\u201d or \u201cgood for national security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s remarks undermine claims by the Canadian government that Meng\u2019s detention was purely a legal-administrative matter and was not political or the result of pressure from Washington. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was at pains to maintain the deceit, declaring: \u201cRegardless of what goes on other countries, Canada is\u2014and will always remain\u2014a country of the rule of law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Meng\u2019s treatment, however, has led to a wave of anger in China against both Canada and the US. \u201cOn Chinese social media, the US and Canadian embassies\u2019 accounts on the Weibo&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/12\/13\/chin-d13.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Huawei executive\u2019s arrest provokes anti-US protests in China By Peter Symonds 13 December 2018 Canada\u2019s arrest of Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of the Chinese tech giant Huawei, has provoked outrage in China. Meng was released on bail on harsh and humiliating conditions on Tuesday after 10 days in detention. She faces extradition to [&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-389016","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\/389016","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=389016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}