Warnings come amid new signals that if court sets Meng free, Beijing might release Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor
Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou poses with friends and family on the steps of the B.C. Supreme Court building in downtown Vancouver days before a judge rules on her extradition case.The Chinese government has issued a new warning to Canada about further “damage” to relations between the two countries, days before a British Columbia judge releases a decision on an extradition hearing for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.
But Chinese state media this week threatened an outbreak of public “resentment” toward Canada if the B.C. court finds against Ms. Meng. “A decision that panders to the Trump administration would only lead to a rise in netizen resentment, which would affect bilateral relations between China and Canada,” the Communist Party-backed Global Times wrote in an unsigned editorial published online late Monday.
“If the Canadian court rules that Meng is to be released, in my opinion, China would also release these two Canadians very quickly,” he said. Trade between Canada and China will also “become much more normal once Ms. Meng is set free,” said Mr. Cheng, who previously worked for the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, an influential think tank that operates under China’s powerful intelligence agency, the Ministry of State Security.
U.S. prosecutors have accused Ms. Meng of fraud related to violations of U.S. sanctions against Iran. Lawyers with Canada’s Department of Justice argued in a January hearing that Ms. Meng lied to a bank, an act that amounts to fraud under Canadian law.
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