John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN CBC NEWS
“Astonishing stuff': Crown lawyer mocks Meng Wanzhou [Huawei senior executive arrested by Canada at American request and fighting her extradition to the United States] conspiracy theory
“No evidence agencies colluded against Huawei executive, lawyer for attorney general says”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/meng-wanzhou-crown-disclosure-1.5303295
Gee, thanks Justin Trudeau, thanks Chrystia Freeland, for this shabby, completely unnecessary show, certain to help further fray our poor relations with China.
Why in God's name is this woman being put through this? A senior executive of a major international company? Look at that big awkward thing strapped to her leg [a location device]. And she is mocked by the Crown. And she has to spend huge amounts to defend herself.
Can you imagine America's violent reaction if China were treating someone like Bill Gates this way?
This only happened because the United States has just short of declared economic war on China, trying in every way that it can think of, to hurt and disadvantage the country, while trying to gain advantages for itself.
It's called Mercantilism and the discredited economic philosophy goes back centuries. Although, the United States isn't just engaging in 17th century Mercantilism, it is very much engaging in a form of hybrid warfare against a rival. The assault on Huawei is part of that.
The only thing shabbier than Trump's destructive policies towards China is a Canadian Liberal government's support for them. It's appalling.
It did not have to be. It was avoidable completely. We would not have seen this ugliness under Pierre Trudeau or Lester Pearson or Jean Chretien or Paul Martin.
Why are we seeing it now?
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Response to a comment saying, “Why do Canada and other nations continue to condone the United States illegal unilateral sanctions on other nations”
Absolutely. The million-dollar question.
The United States today effectively is running an international extortion operation. And almost everyone in “the West" is afraid to call them on it. They are hurting many other nations, not for any genuine principle, but for their own gain.
American laws, sanctions, should apply only to Americans.
America is able to make them apply to others only through threats and abusing the powers of banking and finance. It's literally a mafia protection racket on a grand scale.
And sadly, Canada is one of America’s most obedient helpers right now.
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Response to a comment saying, “Huawei is a state-owned spy machine, we can make our own equipment, support our own workers, buy Canadian, American, European....”
Completely uninformed. Huawei has even offered to sell their entire system to Westerners. They've opened themselves to inspections.
The head of Huawei has offered to sell its core technology and share its 5G base stations around the world with others.
Ever seen that kind of offer from an American hi-tech company? Apple won't even let you open your Apple devices without "bricking" them.
And, please, no country on earth does more spying, and constantly, than the United States. And that includes spying on all its friends. I guarantee that NSA hears every call that Trudeau and his cabinet make.
The NSA records your every stroke on a keyboard. Virtually all American hi-tech devices have "backdoors" built-in at that government’s insistence for surveillance convenience.
All the online American commercial giants - Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc - collect unholy amounts of personal information on you and on everyone else.
And all of it is freely accessed by the spooks at CIA and NSA.
