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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tainted the U.S. extradition request for Chinese telecom executive Meng Wanzhou by suggesting it is essentially political in nature, Ms. Meng’s lawyers argued in the British Columbia Supreme Court on Wednesday.
The RCMP arrested the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies on Dec. 1, 2018, after the United States Justice Department requested her extradition on a charge of fraud. Soon after, China
Ms. Meng’s defence team, led by Vancouver lawyer Richard Peck, is trying to have the extradition request thrown out as an abuse of the Canadian judicial system
against christians. thank you. arthel: diplomatic tensions growing between china and western nations. among the list of limits, canadian prime minister justin trudeau firing his ambassador to china, after he said it would be quote - great if the u.s. dropped its extradition demand of chinese tech company, huawei cfo. meanwhile straight has been dragged into the mix as one of its citizens has been arrested in china. the austrian government is obviously concerned with the residential he is a strained citizen and we are seeking to provide him with consular assistance and support. to ensure that he is treated fairly and transparent. arthel: with more on this now we have a retired u.s. navy captain, bob wells, a former national security advisor to vice president dyck cheney, thomas, thank you for joining us. quite a list to get through here. starting with this. why would canada s now former
no, they don t. that 10 cent music ipo is being traded well. there s other companies in the pipeline. neil: and they could have shopped that anywhere. they want it here. yeah, next year we have didi coming. a lots of companies coming down the pipeline. they want markets to be free and open. yeah. let s make a deal. neil: the president played hardball on this. too soon to say if he won. looking like he did. there s a method to the madness. the art of the deal. markets today show that they like when progress is made on trade. when we had the ball graining in the huawei cfo case in canada where the cfo was detained in canada but granted ball, that was bullish for markets. neil: could have gotten in the way. but the president said, this is all tied together and we re going to treated it as such. no mystery that she was granted bail with that mindset. we get markets on that and focus