Meng case may be at critical point

China is prepared to deal. We should do a Cold War-type deal: Meng for the four political prisoners and reduction of the death sentences. We should insist on the whole package. Take it or leave it.

Meng Wanzhou CFO Huawei, right, pictured Oct. 2, 2014, at the Russia Calling Investment Forum in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Photograph courtesy of the Kremlin

Opinion

BY REUEL AMDUR

December 17, 2020

VALS-DES-MONTS, QUE.—On Oct. 29, Judge Heather Holmes of the British Columbia Supreme Court received Meng Wanzhou’s claim in which her lawyer called for her release. Holmes will be considering the submission which claims that certain evidence around the U.S. charge of alleged fraud was defective...

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