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Before Wednesday’s B.C. Supreme Court ruling in Meng Wanzhou’s ongoing extradition case, Chinese authorities were busy threatening Canada and setting the stage for the Huawei executive’s triumphant release.
Had things turned out the way Beijing had hoped, it would have provided the perfect narrative: a Chinese businesswoman who was persecuted by Canadian and American authorities is vindicated, as a Western country cowers under the boot of an aspiring global power. The U.S. accuses Meng of making false claims to HSBC bank about a telecommunications equipment supplier, which put the bank at risk of violating U.S. sanctions against Iran. Meng’s legal team argued that since Canada doesn’t have similar sanctions against the Islamic republic, what she did would not have constituted a crime here.
As the Post’s John Ivison noted, “The judge was not bullied by the Americans into making her decision. She administered justice without respect to political pressure.”
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