News Analysis
Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer and daughter of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested by Canadian authorities on charges that Huawei sold equipment to Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions.
US-China Relations
Opinion
Will Meng Wanzhou Cross the Sino–US ‘Spy Bridge’?
To rescue its ‘asset,’ Beijing would have to find an acceptable token of exchange
If China wants to retrieve Meng Wanzhou, the question is how many bargaining chips China has in its possession.
In this courtroom sketch, Meng Wanzhou, back right, the CFO of Huawei Technologies, listens during a bail hearing at B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, on Tuesday Dec. 11, 2018. Her husband Liu Xiaozong is seen seated at front left. The Canadian Press/Jane Wolsak
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He Qinglian
Author
He Qinglian is a prominent Chinese author and economist. Currently based in the United States, she authored “China’s Pitfalls,” which concerns corruption in China’s economic reform of the 1990s, and “The Fog of Censorship: Media Control in China,” which addresses the manipulation and restriction of the press. She regularly writes on contemporary Chinese social and economic issues.
