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China’s Threat to Ottawa Over Huawei CFO Arrest Ignores Rule of Law in Canada

 

By Omid Ghoreishi, Epoch Times

 

December 8, 2018 Updated: December 8, 2018

 

NEWS ANALYSIS

 

TORONTO—China has escalated its warning to Canada over the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wenzhou, saying that if she is not released immediately there will be “severe consequences.” What the Chinese communist regime may be ignoring, however, is the fact that governments in democratic nations can’t interfere with legal proceedings.

 

“I think this is very typical of China’s behaviour,” said Brian Lee Crowley, managing director of the think tank Macdonald-Laurier Institute. “They look at how they behave domestically, and how every institution in China must bend to the will of the Communist Party, and they just assume that every other society is organized the same way.”

 

Meng, CFO of Huawei and daughter of the Chinese telecom company’s founder, was arrested on Dec. 1 on fraud charges and is facing extradition to the United States. She is alleged to have lied to American banks about Huawei’s relationship with Skycom, a Hong Kong-based company that reportedly conducted business with Iran. Meng denies the allegations.

 

https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinas-threat-to-ottawa-over-huawei-cfo-arrest-ignores-rule-of-law-in-canada_2733694.html

Anonymous ID: d5dd78 Dec. 8, 2018, 5:27 p.m. No.4220151   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Former Canadian Prime Minister Harper Says Canada Should Ban Huawei From 5G

 

Harper says he agrees with Trump administration's policy to pressure China to play by the rules

 

By Omid Ghoreishi, Epoch Times

 

December 8, 2018 Updated: December 8, 2018

 

Former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he agrees with the United States that Canada and other western countries should ban Chinese telecom giant Huawei from their emerging 5G networks.

 

“My personal view is that that is something that western countries should be doing in terms of our own long-term security issues,” Harper said in an interview with Fox News.

 

While he was prime minister, Harper said his government was increasingly concerned “about the penetration of Huawei and ZTE,” another Chinese telecom company, into the telecommunication networks of democratic countries.

 

“These are organizations ultimately … tightly tied to Chinese security apparatus, and we think there is some serious issues there.”

 

Under Harper, Canada banned Huawei from bidding to build the government’s telecommunications and email network—a ban that still remains in place in the current government.

 

Huawei was founded by a former officer of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA), and is often cited as a source of threat to national security in the intelligence circles.

 

The company is very active in the development of 5G technology in Canada, partnering with universities and research centres. The majority of Canada’s allies in the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, including the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, have banned Huawei from their 5G networks. In the UK—another Five Eyes member state, the BT Group telecom giant has said it will also not use Huawei in its 5G network.

 

https://www.theepochtimes.com/former-canadian-prime-minister-harper-says-canada-should-ban-huawei-from-5g_2733611.html