Huawei's CFO arrested in Canada, faces extradition to United States

The Pentagon in May ordered stores on American military bases to stop selling smartphones made by Huawei and Chinese rival ZTE. And in February, top officials from the CIA, NSA, FBI and the Defense Intelligence Agency told a Senate committee that those firms' smartphones posed a security threat to American customers. The Trump administration launched an extraordinary campaign, urging America's allies to stop using Huawei telecommunications equipment because the Chinese company poses a security threat, according to the Wall Street Journal. Over the past several weeks, New Zealand and Australia have prevented telecommunications companies from using Huawei equipment for their 5G mobile networks. UK telecom company BT (BT) said Wednesday that it would not buy equipment from the Chinese tech company for the core of its next generation wireless network. The company also said it would remove existing Huawei technology from the heart of its 4G network within two years. Huawei told CNN Business last month that its equipment is trusted by customers in 170 countries and by 46 of the world's 50 largest telecommunications companies. "If a government's behavior extends beyond its jurisdiction, such activity should not be encouraged," the company said. "Huawei firmly believes that our partners and customers will make the right choice based on their own judgment and experience of working with Huawei." Huawei's rival ZTE also faced accusations of illegal dealings with Iran. In April, the United States blocked ZTE from buying US parts. The Trump administration said that ZTE had lied to US officials about punishing employees who violated US sanctions against North Korea and Iran. But the Trump administration lifted the export ban on ZTE in July after striking a deal with the company.

She is the daughter of Huawei CEO.

So Huawei have spyware in their phones?

Yes, it's a Chinese phone. What do you expect?

Well the trade issue gust got uglier.

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The US State Dept has warned NEVER to buy any Chinese made phone, they issued the warning last or this year.

Canada grants her bail. Trump says he will intervene. How? Can he? Canada is s sovereign nation. Isn't it?

Canada arrested her at the request of USA. He thinks he can make the charges go away...

Lawfare has a good legal analysis, longish, but not abstruse.

Third Canadian detained in China as diplomatic feud escalates

Ottawa is aware of the detention but gave no further details, Canadian media report

Why Canada got in or had to get in the middle of this beats me. Can anyone tell me in brief?

[quote]Extradition is an act where one jurisdiction delivers a person accused or convicted of committing a crime in another jurisdiction, over to their law enforcement. It is a cooperative law enforcement process between the two jurisdictions and depends on the arrangements made between them. Besides the legal aspects of the process, extradition also involves the physical transfer of custody of the person being extradited to the legal authority of the requesting jurisdiction.

Thanks. But what's the US done for Canada lately?

If I were Canada I'd tell the woman to go get extradited from another country. Now it's nothing but trouble for Canada.

And what will this friendly law abiding gesture get it? Some help from the US? Yeah right.

The robust extradition treaty between the United States and Canada is the problem.

Canada should just release her in return for the release of the three Canadians and tell the United States government to go fuck itself.

The more isolated the United States government is in worldwide affairs, the better off we will be within the United States loses super power status due to bankruptcy.

She looks like a Peanuts character. Fuck this bitch.

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Multiple tech officers have canceled plans to visit China. They know that Chinese retaliation on these issues can be extreme. They have multiple reasons to arrest officials from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc.

This is like the daughter of Bill Gates been kidnapped by China. This woman’s father is one of the richest and most powerful men in China. The chances of this becoming a major escalating international incident are very high.

How come this woman has 2 passports? China allows dual citizenship?

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Did you not read that she is the daughter of one of the richest man in China? One of the best friends of the president of China? Are you just fucking stupid?

R18 according to the BBC she has 7 passports (4 from China and 3 from Hong Kong).

She is a crook. With 7 fucking passports!!! I find it hard to believe China didn't know it. She is probably an agent for the govt.

China only allows 1 passport for each citizen.

Oh so she's super rich so she paid off officials so she could have 7 passports?

There is more to the story...

also, the Chinese hackers were in the news...tied to Chinese govt trying to steal US high tech companies' secrets.

China is one giant criminal organization. Putin has been attempting to model Russia on it but without much success.

Does she like little dick?

My dad wants to fuck her. He has yellow fever.

She is also the daughter of Huawei’s Founder and Chairman, Ren Zhengfei. Daddy is grooming her to succeed him when he retires.

In other words, Meng is the heiress apparent of China’s largest and most advanced hi-tech company, and one which plays a key role in China’s grand strategy of global domination.

Huawei is a leader in 5G technology and, earlier this year, surpassed Apple to become the second largest smartphone maker in the world behind Samsung.

But Huawei is much more than an innocent manufacturer of smartphones.

It is a spy agency of the Chinese Communist Party.

How do we know?

Because the party has repeatedly said so.

First in 2015 and then again in June 2017, the party declared that all Chinese companies must collaborate in gathering intelligence.

“All organizations and citizens,” reads Article 7 of China’s National Intelligence Law, “must support, assist with, and collaborate in national intelligence work, and guard the national intelligence work secrets they are privy to.”

All Chinese companies, whether they are private or owned by the state, are now part and parcel of the party’s massive overseas espionage campaign.

As a global leader in 5G technology, it has been tasked with installing 5G “fiber to the phone” networks in countries around the world.

In fact, “Made in China 2025” — the party’s aggressive plan to dominate the cutting-edge technologies of the 21st century — singles out Huawei as the key to achieving global 5G dominance.

Any network system installed by a company working hand-in-glove with China’s intelligence services raises the danger of not only cyber espionage, but also cyber-enabled technology theft.

And the danger doesn’t stop there.

The new superfast 5G networks, which are 100 times faster than 4G, will literally run the world of the future. Everything from smartphones to smart cities, from self-driving vehicles to, yes, even weapons systems, will be under their control.

In other words, whoever controls the 5G networks will control the world — or at least large parts of it.

Huawei has reportedly secured more than 25 commercial contracts for 5G, but has been locked out of an increasing number of countries around the world because of spying concerns.

The “Five Eyes” — Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the US — have over the past year waged a concerted campaign to block the Chinese tech giant from dominating next-generation wireless networks around the world. Not only have they largely kept Huawei out of their own countries, they have convinced other countries like Japan, India and Germany to go along, too.

[quote]Department of Justice Unseals Two Indictments Against Huawei

One for stealing trade T-Mobile's secrets and one for violating Iran sanctions

[Quote]This story gets more insane daily.

[Quote]She put her children up as collateral for her bond?

"Listen kids, go with this nice officer. Mommy will be right back."

She's been framed - disgusting.

This story is too complex for this place.

The machinations behind the scenes would drive Shakespeare insane.

Ho Lee Fuk

Sum Ting Wrong

New Zealand bans Huawei, China has message for New Zealand

From offering mobile payment services such as WePay and Alipay to hiring front-desk staff proficient in Mandarin, the New Zealand Chinese Travel and Tourism Association was not short of advice for Kiwi tourism operators on how to benefit from an influx of mainland Chinese visitors to New Zealand this year.

“Chinese tourists enjoy spontaneous travel so there are a lot of last minute bookings. For businesses who’d like to attract Chinese tourists, this is the major challenge for them,” association chairman Simon Cheung said in a promotional video.

But preparations for the 2019 China-New Zealand Year of Tourism – a campaign by both governments to strengthen economic and bilateral ties – were cast in doubt when China postponed the launch event, which was expected to take place in Wellington next week.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Tuesday acknowledged that the country’s relationship was complex and not without challenges, but dismissed talk there was a rift. But she revealed that dates for her first official trip to China, planned for the end of last year, still had not been finalised.

“I have been issued with an invitation to visit China, that has not changed. We continue to find dates that would work,” she said.

Her admission fuelled concerns from opposition parties and the media that ties, already tense after Ardern’s government blocked Chinese telecom giant Huawei from the nationwide roll-out of a 5G data network over “significant national security concerns”, were deteriorating further.

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She still in jail? Did they accept her children as collateral?

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