Trudeau says Canada will not cave in to China's pressure over Huawei CFO's case

Amid rising tensions between Beijing and Toronto, Canian PM Justin Trudeau on vember 11 said that his country would t cave in to pressure from China over case of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou. Huawei’s CFO was detained by Canian authorities in December 2018 and she is currently under house arrest in Vancouver. Her case has caused diplomatic chill between two countries. Beijing has also retaliated to her arrest by detaining two Canians, former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor, over espion charges. 

In an interview during an FT online conference, Trudeau said, “We don’t believe in coercive diplomacy and ... we actually deeply believe that if you start giving into that kind of pressure, you’ll leave yourself worse off for long term”. 

He ded, “China continues to think that y can just put eugh pressure on us and we will ... give in, but that’s exactly opposite of our position”. 

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Meng’s extrition trial 

Meanwhile, Meng has denied charges against her in US and is fighting extrition from her house arrest. A Canian judge has denied Meng access to most of documents her lawyers wanted to use to help prevent her extrition to United States. Prosecutors have accused her of misleing a bank in US on Huawei’s relationship with a company operating in Iran, putting it at risk of penalties for flouting US sanctions on Tehran. 

However, defence lawyers have argued that case is about US sanctions on Iran and t a bank fraud case, ding that Cana has repudiated sanctions. In May, British Columbia’s Superior Court judge Hear Holmes ruled that legal standard of double criminality h been met. Holmes said that Meng’s approach would seriously limit Cana’s ability to fulfill its international obligations in extrition context for fraud and or ecomic crimes.

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