China Threatens Canada With Severe Consequences Over Meng’s Arrest

It will be interesting to see if Canada gives into the thug like threats being directed at them by China.  We saw these same type of threats thrown at South Korea when they did not give in over China’s demands to not deploy the THAAD battery.  China responded by stopping tour groups from going to South Korea and putting unofficial sanctions on Korean companies.  They will likely do the same to Canada to try and bully them to release Meng:

China warned Canada on Saturday that there would be severe consequences if it did not immediately release Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s [HWT.UL] chief financial officer, calling the case “extremely nasty”.
Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s global chief financial officer, was arrested in Canada on Dec. 1 and faces extradition to the United States, which alleges that she covered up her company’s links to a firm that tried to sell equipment to Iran despite sanctions.
The executive is the daughter of the founder of Huawei.
If extradited to the United States, Meng would face charges of conspiracy to defraud multiple financial institutions, a Canadian court heard on Friday, with a maximum sentence of 30 years for each charge.
No decision was reached at the extradition hearing after nearly six hours of arguments and counter-arguments, and the hearing was adjourned until Monday.
In a short statement, China’s Foreign Ministry said that Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng had issued the warning to release Meng to Canada’s ambassador in Beijing, summoning him to lodge a “strong protest”.

Reuters

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