EU warns vs Huawei links with China intelligence
BRUSSELS: citizens should The European be “worried” Union and about its telecoms giant Huawei and other Chi
warned Friday (Saturday in Manila).
Huawei quickly hit back at European Commission Vice President Andrus
charges it posed a security threat.
The Chinese telecoms giant has been under the spotlight since Meng
arrested nearly a week ago in Canada
The White House did not specify why she was detained but mentioned longstanding US concerns over Chinese firms using stolen intellectual
information technology. charges related to sanctions-breaking business dealings with Iran, a Canadian court heard Friday, a week after she was detained on an American extradition request.
Meng Wanzhou, 46, was arrested in
- ver on December 1 while changing planes during a trip from Hong Kong to Mexico — ratcheting up tensions between the United States and China
a truce in their trade war.
- pected to render a decision on bail. Until then, she will remain in custody.
Canadian government lawyer John Gibb-Carsley asked for bail to be denied, saying Meng has been accused of “conspiracy to defraud multiple faces more than 30 years in prison. of a covert subsidiary to sell to Iran in breach of sanctions.
Meng had personally denied to bankers any direct connections between Huawei and the subsidiary, SkyCom, when in fact “SkyCom is Huawei,” Gibb-Carsley said, putting
breaches occurred from 2009 to 2014, - representations were in 2013. Meng had been a member of
the company was later sold, said her lawyer David Martin.
US authorities, however, claim Huawei continued to control the company,
with Gibb-Carsley noting that SkyCom employees continued to carry Huawei
He suggested that Meng has also shown a pattern of avoiding the US over the past year since becoming aware of the investigation into the matter, arguing that she has no ties to Canada and has access to vast wealth and political connections — and thus
on the day of a summit at which US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping agreed to a truce in the escalating trade dispute between the two economic powerhouses.
China says Meng — the daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, a
Liberation Army — has violated no laws in Canada or the United States and has demanded her release.