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Huawei Executive Meng Was a Loser in Trudeau’s Election Gamble

Huawei Executive Meng Was a Loser in Trudeau’s Election Gamble
Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou (C) talks to media outside the B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, Canada, on Aug. 18, 2021. Don MacKinnon/AFP via Getty Images
Patricia Adams
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Lawrence Solomon
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wasn’t the only loser in his gamble to call an early election. Meng Wanzhou, the Huawei CFO who was spinning her wheels in Canada since her 2018 arrest at the behest of the U.S. Justice Department, is also a loser, and a bigger one.

Patricia Adams is an economist and president of the Energy Probe Research Foundation and Probe International, an independent think tank in Canada and around the world. She is the publisher of internet news services Three Gorges Probe and Odious Debts Online and the author or editor of numerous books. Her books and articles have been translated into Chinese, Spanish, Bengali, Japanese, and Bahasa Indonesia. She can be reached at [email protected]
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