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Chinese envoy to Canada visits detained Huawei CFO, urges Ottawa to correct 'mistake'

Published 11/29/2019, 12:23 PM
Updated 11/29/2019, 12:23 PM
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: China's new ambassador to Canada Cong Peiwu speaks during a news conference for a small group of reporters at the Chinese Embassy in Ottawa

By David Ljunggren

OTTAWA (Reuters) - China's new ambassador to Canada visited a senior Huawei Technologies Co Ltd official who is fighting extradition to the United States and urged Ottawa to release her, the embassy said on Friday.

Relations between Canada and China turned icy a year ago, after Vancouver police detained Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. arrest warrant. She is currently out on bail and awaiting court hearings due to start next year.

Ambassador Cong Peiwu, who took up his post earlier this month, on Thursday extended his warm regards to Meng and said Beijing "will continue to urge the Canadian side to correct its mistake" and release her immediately, the embassy said in a statement.

"The great motherland and nearly 1.4 billion Chinese people are your staunchest supporters. We expect you to go back to China safe and sound at an early date," it quoted Cong as telling Meng.

Shortly after Meng's arrest, China picked up two Canadian citizens who now face state security charges. It also blocked imports of Canadian canola seed.

The office of Canadian Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne was not immediately available for comment. Champagne said last week he had pressed his Chinese counterpart on the case of the two detainees.

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This show how deep the connection of the company to china gov. China doesnt care about its average citizen.
Canada just a sheep. she not aware how fierce the Lion can do
that's why she is still arrested, some lion...
Perhaps, with Trump's fraudulent manners of creating fake news for propaganda purposes, there is a consideration whether the USA faked the accusations to create attention, Trump-style, and that Canada needs to bring the USA's case into the courts of Canada and do all, what the USA wanted to do with Meng in the USA, now in Canada. Perhaps that is what Canada could do to VERIFY that the USA does have a valid case against Meng. -- With all the fake news the POTUS has released for the stockmarket the USA has lost its credibility for truth and authentic news.
Done and done. They have video and audio evidence, plus documents supporting the extradiction. Its now become a negotiating tool for the US to pressure the CCP into becoming a law abiding citizen of the world instead of a thief.
You're goofy. The only liars in this mess are the lying, cheating and thieving Chinese. You can try to reinvent reality by repeating your fantasies over and over again, but that only works on brainwashed subjects under your autocratic rule. Watching nothing but cctv can further twist an already feeble mind.
It's not new that China tries to pull the wool over the public's eyes and tries to dictate another country about China's twisted sense of logic. --- I'm glad to see that Canada's judges upkeep western democratic laws against wishy washy communist arbitrary purpose-bound logic. -- Canada, let the Chinese bickering slide down your back! Cut China off from your natural resources! Save your natural resources for Canada's future and not for a country like China that forbids free democratic elections, a country that represses its citizens, brainwashes and strong-arms its citizens and a country that wants to strong arm the rules of democracy.
for short, you are brainwashed evidenced by the comment. Did you hear from Chinese people that they are repressed?
the moment they speak up, they r sent to re-education camp. U r just a puppet
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