A hearing for the jailed Huawei executive has Canada asking: Where is the help from the U.S.?
Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou arrives with Scot Filer, CEO of Lions Gate Risk Management, in the parking garage of the British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver in March. By Emily Rauhala Emily Rauhala Staff writer covering Canada and foreign affairs Email Bio Follow May 8 at 6:00 AM In its diplomatic battle with China, Canada could use some backup. But its closest ally, the United States, seems to be occupied waging other wars.
With Meng due in a Vancouver courtroom Wednesday for a hearing to schedule the start of the extradition process, an exasperated Canada is bracing for further political or economic retaliation from Beijing — and no longer expecting much from Washington. Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies, leaves her house for a hearing at the British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver in March. The conflict between Canada and China started with Meng’s arrest in December on charges that she violated U.S. sanctions law by misstating her company’s relationship with a subsidiary.
U.S. officials have since tried to walk that back, expressing the country’s commitment to the rule of law and, at a news conference to unveil a range of charges against Huawei, thanking Canadian allies for their help. But uncertainty over the U.S. position lingers. “When you need your friends, you talk to your friends about how you need them,” he said during a visit to Washington this week. “Our American allies are aware of the situation.”Security guards march past a shop selling Apple and Huawei phones in Beijing. Some are frustrated that this awareness has not translated into action.
“It makes it much more difficult in public-opinion terms for the prime minister to have permission to do some of the things that would be in both countries’ interests.”
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