Huawei’s Wanzhou has strong case to fight US extradition, Canadian envoy says
John McCallum's comments are the most explicit sign yet from a Canadian official that Meng Wanzhou may not be sent to the US
Ottawa — A top executive from Huawei being held in Canada can make “strong arguments” against extradition to the US, in part due to President Donald Trump's politicisation of the case, Canada's ambassador to China said. Canadian envoy John McCallum's comments to Chinese-language media, which were broadcast on Wednesday, are the most explicit sign yet from a Canadian official that Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's CFO, may not be sent to the US. Meng was detained on December 1 in Vancouver at the request of the US over alleged violations of US sanctions on Iran. She is currently under house arrest and China is demanding that she be freed. In a clip shown by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, McCallum said Meng had “quite good arguments on her side", the first of which was “political involvement by comments from Donald Trump in her case". Trump said in December that he would intervene in Meng's case if it served US national security interests or helped close a trade deal with China. Canadian...
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