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Huawei Arrest Tests China's Leaders as Fear and Anger Grip Elite
The arrest of one of China's leading tech executives by the Canadian police for extradition to the United States has unleashed a combustible torrent of outrage and alarm among affluent and influential Chinese, posing a delicate political test for President Xi Jinping and his grip on the loyalty of the nation's elite.
The outpouring of conflicting sentiments — some Chinese have demanded a boycott of American products while others have expressed anxiety about their investments in the United States — underscores the unusual, politically charged nature of the Trump administration's latest move to counter China's drive for technological superiority.
In a hearing on Friday in Vancouver, Canadian prosecutors said the executive, Meng Wanzhou of the Chinese telecom giant Huawei, faced accusations of participating in a scheme to trick financial institutions into making transactions that violated United States sanctions against Iran.
Unlike a new round of tariffs or more tough rhetoric from American officials, the detention of Ms. Meng, the company's chief financial officer, appears to have driven home the intensifying rivalry between the United States and China in a visceral way for the Chinese establishment — and may force Mr. Xi to adopt a tougher stance against Washington, analysts said. In part, that is because Ms. Meng, 46, is so embedded in that establishment herself.
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(Score: 2) by legont on Monday December 10 2018, @11:16PM (1 child)
Man, you gonna have a few psyche shocks within the next decade.
China is already bigger than the US in ppp terms. While this measurement might be controversial, it definitely the best one to assess military strenth.
But fear not, there are less controversial options available. China, for example, could drown Canada in fetanyl so your government would have to build the police state itself to stop it. Opium wars in reverse. Do you think they forgot what your ancestors done to them?
How could a sane, supposedly peaceful, government get itself in the middle of an ugly fight between superpowers? Of a country that depends on both so much...
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by Blymie on Tuesday December 11 2018, @12:01AM
You just don't get it, democracy isn't worth a damn, if you don't follow the rule of law.
The arrest is doing just that.
All this hand waving, "fear of the future", doesn't matter. It's meaningless. You don't save a democracy, by giving up what makes it such.
You've blathered on with inane statements in that other thread too.
You know we've lived beside the US forever, and we certainly don't hesitate to arrest their citizens either. What the hell is wrong with you?
It's like you think China is special.