2018-12-06 13:29:55 | #ImmigrantObvserver # MengWanzhou (Sabrina Wanzhou Meng) born 1972, is the daughter of Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei, and Meng Dongbo (孟东波), the father of her mother, Meng Jun (孟军), served as deputy governor of Sichuan province. She at the very least has Chinese, American and Canadian passports!
2018-12-06 07:31:11 | 【Meng Wanzhou, Daughter of Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei, arrested in Canada] Canada’s Global and Mail newspaper reported that the daughter of Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei, Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou, has been arrested in Canada and faces extradition to the U.S. American law enforcement authorities have said that Meng Wanzhou is suspected of violating U.S. trade sanctions against Iran. http://t.cn/EyXG9Ao
2018-12-06 07:24:50 | 【Foreign Media: Ren Zhengfei’s daughter and Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou has been arrested in Vancouver】News, Beijing time, December 6. According to Canada’s Globe and Mail, quoting Ian McLeod of Canada’s Justice Department, Canada has arrested Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou. http://t.cn/EyXbNi9
A Weibo search for “Meng Wanzhou” directs readers to two posts from state media, one from CCTV Online and the other from the Global Times. The CCTV post is a short video relaying the response from China’s Foreign Ministry calling on Canada and the U.S. to immediate release Meng and to “protect the legitimate rights of the person involved.” The Global Times post similarly focusses on what at present seems right now to be the core message of the leadership: Meng must be immediately released.
This topic is so sensitive. The headline article on my WeChat public account “Teacher Zhu Wei” (朱伟老师), “Chinese Embassy in Canada: We Demand the Immediate Return of Meng Wanzhou’s Freedom” was deleted by the relevant departments. Right now I’m reposting it on Weibo, so read it really quickly before it’s gone.
Finally, I want to emphasise again the assessment I had a few days ago: through equal and rational dialogue a new cold war between China and the U.S. can be avoided, and this would be a great thing for both countries and for the world. But the sky rains when it wants to, and girls marry when the time comes, and if certain people insist on foisting a ‘new cold war’ upon us, China has sufficient courage to meet this challenge, upholding China’s right to development in the midst of this struggle.