Supreme Court where Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou was attending a hearing, in Vancouver, on Jan. 21, 2020.

While serving as ambassador to China, Barton drew criticism for championing closer Canada-China ties despite Beijing's arbitrary detention of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor in retaliation for Canada's arrest of Meng Wanzhou, a senior executive

Beijing is attempting to use Schellenberg’s life as collateral to stop the extradition of Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou. Actually killing Schellenberg would have the opposite effect.

We can easily rewind back to when HSBC—a decidedly pro-Beijing financial firm—was openly criticized by China for being a “party” to the detention case of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou. So it’s no surprise that Bank of America is already back-tracking.

Beijing's stance toward Ottawa became more hostile following Canada's arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. extradition request in 2018, with the Chinese regime arresting two Canadian citizens in apparent retaliation.

Kovrig and Spavor, often called the “two Michaels,” were detained by the Chinese government on charges of espionage in December 2018, days after Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s chief financial officer and daughter of the company’s founder, on a

The boost came thanks to another cash injection from the central bank and hopes the release of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou would reset ties with the West.

Their detention is widely considered a hostile retaliation for Canada’s arrest of Huawei’s senior executive Meng Wanzhou nine days earlier at the request of the United States.

The so-called two Michaels were arbitrarily detained and charged with spying by the Chinese regime in an apparent act of retaliation after Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Chinese telecommunications company Huawei, on a U.S

The arrests are widely viewed as retaliation for the RCMP’s December 2018 arrest of Chinese high-tech executive Meng Wanzhou on an American extradition request.

A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has rejected a bid by Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou to admit additional sworn testimonies from employees of the telecom giant as evidence in her extradition case.

Canada and China haven't been on good terms since Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, Chinese telecom giant Huawei's chief financial officer and daughter of the company's founder, on a U.S. extradition warrant.

On that same day, Meng Wanzhou—the high-profile senior executive of China’s telecom giant Huawei—lost an appeal in the British Columbia Supreme Court fighting against her extradition to the United States.

Cherest had previously worked as a member of the McCarthy Tétrault law firm that was hired in January 2020 to provide strategic advice to Chinese telecom giant Huawei following Canada's arrest of the company's senior executive Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. extradition

Canadian citizens Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were arbitrarily detained in Chinese prisons for over 1,000 days, nine days after Huawei’s chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Vancouver on Dec. 1, 2018, on a U.S. extradition request

The letter comes days after the DOJ struck a deal with Huawei Chief Financial officer Meng Wanzhou allowing her to return to China, nearly three years after the executive was arrested in Canada at the request of U.S. prosecutors who had accused Meng of

And China is hinting at a prisoner exchange with Canada, suggesting they could free two Canadians for the release of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou. These stories and more in this episode of Crossroads.

More importantly, the revelation came less than a month after the company’s chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou was allowed to return to China after the Department of Justice inked a deal with her.

The “two Michaels” were detained in 2018, following Canada’s arrest of Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei Technologies’ founder Ren Zhengfei and the telecom company’s chief financial officer.

Commentary It was no coincidence that as Meng Wanzhou, daughter of Huawei's founder Ren Zhengfei, was released from home detention in her mansion in Canada, two Canadians—former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor—were also released

He was originally sentenced to 15 years in prison in late 2018, but shortly after the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Canada in December 2018, he was brought back to court and given a death sentence in a one-day retrial.

Wanzhou case.”

The two were detained in December 2018 in what was widely seen as retaliation for Canada’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou at the behest of the United States.

The two were arbitrarily detained in Chinese prisons for over 1,000 days in what is widely viewed as retaliation for the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. extradition warrant in 2018.

Kovrig and Spavor have been in custody since December 2018, shortly after Canada arrested Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou at the behest of the U.S. Department of Justice. With files from The Associated Press

Wanzhou, a senior executive of Chinese telecom giant Huawei.

A home reported to be owned by Huawei Technologies CFO Meng Wanzhou is seen in Vancouver, Canada, on Dec. 10, 2018.

Spavor and Kovrig were arbitrarily detained by the Chinese regime shortly after Canada arrested Huawei Technologies executive Meng Wanzhou in 2018 on a U.S. extradition request.

The HSBC statement comes a day after China's official People's Daily newspaper published a report accusing HSBC of being an accomplice of the United States and lying about Huawei, resulting in the arrest of its CFO Meng Wanzhou.

"We have said that the United States should not sign a final and complete agreement with China that does not settle the question of Meng Wanzhou and the two Canadians," Trudeau told Quebec television station TVA.