government, meanwhile, has yet to unseal the charges against Meng, which for four months left U.S.
national security at stake - the Chinese government is demanding the release of Huawei’s chief financial officer. Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, recently described Huawei and other Chinese telecom companies as “arms of the Chinese Communist Party.” Meanwhile, a top member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. “So this represents a particular danger,” he added. And a telecommunication company is “particularly problematic because gives a government the capability to have access to communications that are global,” Michael Brown, the former CEO of global cyber-firm Symantec, said at a House Intelligence Committee hearing in July. intelligence community is “concerned about” laws inside China that compel companies like Huawei to take certain actions. In fact, a top Homeland Security official, Jeanette Manfra, recently told a congressional panel the U.S. In an interview with Reuters Tuesday, Trump said he would intervene in with the Justice Department's case against Meng, if he "thought it was necessary." He also said that while the White House has spoken with both Justice and Chinese officials about the case, he said he had not been contacted by Chinese officials directly. markets, contributing to a substantial drop in the stock markets last week. The Chinese government’s demands over Meng come as President Donald Trump and his administration are trying to hammer out a deal with China that would alleviate growing tensions over trade and possible tariffs. authorities over the matter, demanding the United States drop the "extremely egregious” charges against Meng. The official Xinhua News Agency said a top Chinese diplomat "lodged solemn representations and strong protests" with Canadian and U.S. In the United States alone, one major bank ended up improperly approving $100 million in transactions based on the lies, the court documents allege.īut after news of Meng’s arrest became public last week, officials in China warned of “grave consequences” if she is not released, calling her detention “unreasonable, unconscionable, and vile in nature." A Justice Department spokesman declined to answer a question from ABC News about it, but top national security officials from Justice, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security are slated to testify Wednesday to the Senate Judiciary Committee about "China's non-traditional espionage against the United States," as the hearing is titled. government’s decision to file federal charges against the executive for financial-related crimes. government concerns over Huawei have pitted American officials against their Chinese counterparts.Īnd it's still unclear whether lingering concerns about Chinese espionage could have played a role in the U.S. She will be required to stay in Vancouver, and her next court appearance is not until February.īut - even as the standoff comes at a particularly sensitive time for U.S.-China relations with the two countries battling over trade –- the latest row is hardly the first time that U.S. On Tuesday, The Associated Press reported she had been granted bail.
The executive, Meng Wanzhou, was being detained in Canada after a court there delayed a decision Monday on a U.S. The leaders of the two giant neighbours are expected to oversee the inking of a raft of deals worth billions of dollars as Moscow continues a pivot towards China it has ramped up since ties with the West slumped over Ukraine.American and Chinese leaders are now in an international showdown over the U.S.-orchestrated arrest of a top executive at Huawei Technologies, the Chinese telecom giant that has become the world's biggest supplier of network equipment for phone and internet services. The Kremlin gave no details on what was discussed at the "informal" tete-a-tete Monday. Both leaders argue that it threatens the strategic balance in the region. Xi and Putin once again slammed the US THAAD missile system installed in South Korea to protect against the North, Xinhua said. He called the two nations "good neighbours, faithful friends and reliable partners" in comments translated into Russian.Ĭhinese state news agency Xinhua reported earlier that Putin and Xi "agreed to jointly push for a proper settlement of the peninsula issue via dialogue and negotiation" at a closed Kremlin meeting Monday evening on the eve of the official talks.īeijing - North Korea's closest diplomatic ally - and Moscow have called repeatedly for calm on all sides, but Trump has warned Washington's patience with Pyongyang is nearing an end. Xi in turn praised the "special character" of China's ties with Russia, It is their third official meeting this year.
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