Noting that his daughter has been detained in her luxury Vancouver mansion for a year now, Huawei founder and chief executive Ken Zhengfei says he hopes the “hardship and suffering” Meng Wanzhou is going through proves to be “good for her growth.”
“Under the grand backdrop of the Sino-U.S. trade war, she is like a small ant caught between the collision of two giant powers,” he told CNN in an interview marking the anniversary of her detention.
Meng’s suffering consists of periodic trips to court in a variety of colourful fashions, where her team of lawyers argue against extradition to the U.S. on charges of bank fraud related to alleged sanctions-busting dealings with Iran. Lately they have sought to oppose allowing the eventual proceedings to be broadcast by CBC, arguing it could catch the attention of Donald Trump and result in a “threatening and intimidating” intervention.
“If (Meng’s) extradition hearing is broadcast, this will only increase the public scrutiny she faces and the attention her matter receives from officials in the United States,” her legal eagles maintained.
In China, of course, the idea that members of the public might be allowed to know what’s going on in the courts is alien to everything the communist system represents. Mere citizens have the right to be told what the government wants them to be told, and that’s that. Beijing, for instance, insists there is absolutely no truth to the multitude of reports of Muslims in Xinjiang province — perhaps hundreds of thousands of them — being forced into re-education camps, locked behind barbed wire watched over by guard towers.
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See Also:
(1) A year ago, Ottawa did the right thing by arresting Meng Wanzhou. We’re still paying the price
(2) China wants Canada to shut up. That’s exactly why we shouldn’t
(3) Time for Trudeau to call China our adversary
(4) Unprecedented Leaks Underscore Deep Discontent Inside China
