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While all this was happening, many wanted to hear what Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had to say. On a video and article by global news, he was questioned. A summary of his response was “appropriate decisions were taken by the appropriate authorities”.

Mr. Trudeau said his government had no involvement in the arrest of Ms. Meng who was detained at Vancouver airport. However, he made mention of the fact that Ottawa was given advanced notice a few days to the arrest. When questioned about the CFO facing extradition to the USA, he declined to give father information. Mr. Trudeau also denied having a conversation with the ambassador or Chinese premier.

However, amidst all these developments, we continue to await the outcome and final decisions taken on the case. Ms. Meng has been granted bail and access to her gadgets even though copies of the date have been made.

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday said his government had no involvement in the arrest of a top executive from Chinese technology giant Huawei, who was detained at Vancouver airport.

Trudeau said Ottawa had been given a few days' advance notice about the plan to arrest Meng Wanzhou, who faces extradition to the United States. He declined to give further details, given that Meng faces a bail hearing on Friday.

READ MORE: Who has taken action against telecom giant Huawei and why hasn't Canada?

The news pummeled stock markets already nervous about increased tension between the United States and China and prompted experts to predict that Beijing would retaliate against Canada.

"The appropriate authorities took the decisions in this case without any political involvement or interference ... we were advised by them with a few days' notice that this was in the works," Trudeau told reporters in Montreal in televised remarks.
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Asked whether he had spoken to the Chinese premier or the ambassador, Trudeau said he had had no conversations with international counterparts about the case.

China's embassy said late on Wednesday that it firmly opposed what it called an unjustified arrest.

The move comes at a challenging time for Trudeau, whose attempts to boost trade ties with China are sputtering.

Brock University professor Charles Burton, a former Canadian diplomat who had served two postings in China, said Beijing was convinced the U.S. administration had pressured Canada to go ahead with the arrest.
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"We can expect China to retaliate against Canada very vigorously," he said by email.

In June 2014, Chinese businessman Su Bin was picked up on a U.S. warrant in Canada, where he had been attempting to establish residency. Shortly afterwards a Canadian citizen in China was arrested and charged with spying. Kevin Garratt spent two years in detention before being deported.

Su pleaded guilty to conspiring to hack defense contractors and was sentenced to nearly four years in prison in 2016.

READ MORE: U.S. investigating Huawei over suspicions of bank fraud, violating Iran sanctions: sources

Asked about the potential for ties with Beijing to sour, a Canadian government official said the two countries had a sophisticated relationship.

"We will continue to discuss issues across a range of fora designed to do just that," said the official, who requested anonymity given the sensitivity of the situation.

Richard Kurland, a Vancouver-based immigration lawyer, said there was little chance Meng would be released from detention. Most people held on U.S. warrants are extradited quickly, he said in an interview.

"If you have deep pockets, you have options," he said.

Huawei has a small Canadian operation, employing just shy of 1,000 people. But the company said early this year it had become the 25th largest research and development funder in Canada, thanks to partnerships with local universities.

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday said his government had no involvement in the arrest of a top executive from Chinese technology giant Huawei, who was detained at Vancouver airport. Trudeau said Ottawa had been given a few days' advance notice about the plan to arrest Meng Wanzhou, who faces extradition to the United States.

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The Chinese embassy in Canada made a statement in an interview with the globe and mail. The said embassy says the arrest of the top executive, is a “political conspiracy” by Canada and US. The ambassador also dismissed Canada’s prime minister’s assertion that he had no role in the case.

When asked about the former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig who was detained in China, the embassy remained silent. The detention of this diplomat came after Beijing had sent out serious warnings on the consequences of the arrest if Ottawa did not release Ms. Meng.

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The Chinese embassy in Canada says the Vancouver arrest of a top Huawei executive amounts to a "political conspiracy" to undermine the telecom giant and it dismisses Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's assertion that he had no role in the high-profile case.

The embassy told The Globe and Mail that Canada and the United States are persecuting Huawei by detaining chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou on allegations of fraud related to possible violations of U.S. trade sanctions against Iran.

"This is not an ordinary judicial case, but a political conspiracy," the embassy said in a statement to The Globe. "It is a political persecution against Chinese enterprise and [a] Chinese citizen. When the Canadian side professed that there was no political involvement or interference in detaining Ms. Meng, such remarks per se [were] a political posture."

The embassy had no comment on the detaining of former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig in China. The detention of Mr. Kovrig comes after Beijing had threatened "serious consequences" if Ottawa did not immediately release Ms. Meng.

The Prime Minister's Office said it would not comment on the embassy's toughly worded statement but the U.S. ambassador to Canada flatly dismissed the allegations of a political conspiracy.

"Absolutely false," Ambassador Kelly Craft said in an interview with journalists at her residence Tuesday.

David Mulroney, a former Canadian ambassador to China, called the Chinese embassy's statement about political conspiracy and persecution "both outrageous and irresponsible." He said what is happening to Ms. Meng now is a "textbook example of due process" that China should respect.

"Ms. Meng has a top-quality lawyer. She is having her days in court. She understands the procedures. The media is covering it. Pro-Meng demonstrations are tolerated ... instead of condemning it, China should perhaps try to learn from it," Mr. Mulroney said.

He said China can't assume "a different set of rules applies for Chinese visitors than applies for anybody else."

Ms. Craft, who expressed concern about China as a growing economic and military threat to the world, said it would be improper to discuss the U.S. legal case against Ms. Meng, the daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei.

The U.S. government alleges Huawei's CFO committed fraud in 2013, when she misled American financial institutions about her company's links to a Hong Kong firm doing business in Iran, opening the banks to risk of violating U.S. sanctions. None of the allegations against Ms. Meng have been proven in court.

"It is a very delicate process and I don't want to be involved in something that is an ongoing independent judiciary process," Ms. Craft said.

Mr. Trudeau has acknowledged he knew days in advance of the pending arrest of Ms. Meng, but maintains there was no political involvement and the decision was made by officials in Canada's Justice Department at the request of U.S. law enforcement agencies.

The detention of Ms. Meng has placed Canada in the middle of global power struggle between the United States and China. Both counties are fighting over attempts by Washington to persuade allies, including Canada, to ban Huawei from supplying equipment for the next generation 5G mobile networks in their respective countries.

Mr. Mulroney said Beijing's lack of respect for the rule of law underlies its response. "Whether it's sanctions regimes - apparently - or whether it's trade or consular matters, China seeks to operate according to a different standard and then shrieks when it's not able to do so."

He said other countries are increasingly coming to the realization they must hold China to a common standard but "China seems determined" to resist.

Mr. Mulroney said China uses its people to further political messages. "In pretending to be concerned about its citizens, it's also sending a message: hands off China and hands off Chinese interests and treat us with kid gloves."

Ms. Craft was reluctant to discuss the U.S. campaign to convince Canada to join the majority of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance to block Huawei from supplying 5G technology. Three of the Five Eyes allies - U.S., Australia and New Zealand - have already taken steps to ban or limit Huawei's participation in 5G.

The United Kingdom, which is also a member along with Canada, has not made a decision yet, although its biggest telecom - BT Group - announced last week that it was tearing out all its Huawei equipment and would not purchase the Chinese company's 5G gear. The Five Eyes partners share intelligence on espionage, terrorism and global crime.

Canada is conducting a national security review to determine if it is safe for Canadian telecoms to use Huawei's 5G equipment.

"We have spoken to all of our allies concerning this issue. Not just in Canada. It has been all of them," Ms. Craft said. "The Canadian government will make that decision based on their findings. That is not my decision to make."

The U.S. ambassador also said Canada and other U.S. allies must be alert to China's Belt and Road initiative to fund large-scale investments in projects from railways to highways in poorer countries across Asia and Africa. Beijing is pouring US$1-trillion into building railways, ports and pipelines in what many experts regard as a state-directed effort to bolster Chinese political influence and extend its military reach from Asia to Africa.

Ms. Craft said China's grand plan has left many of these countries indebted to Beijing while many of the jobs from these projects go to Chinese workers. She also expressed longstanding U.S. concerns that China has been stealing intellectual property from Western countries, including Canada.

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China says arrest of Huawei CFO part of 'political conspiracy' by Canada, U.S.

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The Chinese embassy in Canada says the Vancouver arrest of a top Huawei executive amounts to a "political conspiracy" to undermine the telecom giant and it dismisses Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's assertion that he had no role in the high-profile case.

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On a video posted by city news on their Facebook page, they seek to make an analysis of how this arrest will affect China – Canada relationship. This video has images of top officials like the Chinese minister for trade, a meeting chaired by president trump and a host of others.

China and Canada have been in good terms since the early 1970s. this situation is causing a serious problem for both nations. With this arrest, Chinese businessmen are pulling out investments in Canada and the stock market has seen a huge change on the part of the Chinese investors.

Again, duty to security, both countries are asking their citizens in both countries to be cautious. It is important to note that China retaliated with the arrest of two Canadian with any hearing or access to lawyers.

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The arrest of a Chinese telecommunications executive on Canadian soil has sent shockwaves around the world. Caryn Ceolin with how Canada could now be caught in the crossfire of a deepening conflict...

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While curating various social media platforms, I could not forget Facebook. Facebook is a go-to the area for most youths today. Individuals and organizations make use of this platform to deliver desired content to their followers. It also acts as an online market.

On an article posted by Mashable, a cooperate blog for a law firm. They seek to question why the Huawei CFO was caught mostly with apple products and just one Huawei product. According to their report, she had an iPhone 7 plus, iPad Pro, Huawei mate 20 RS Porsche edition.

Some speculate she is just a fan of Apple products, meanwhile, some pundits are for the motion that she studies apple products for better ideas. Apple is a top brand in the telecommunication industry, and with some slight similarities in booth products, one could make such an assumption.

However, a lawsuit has been placed by the CFO for all the data on her gadgets.

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It's bad enough Huawei Chief Financial Official Wanzhou Meng, who was arrested last December in Vancouver on charges ranging from fraud to money laundering, faces decades of jail time.

But now, a report from Bloomberg has revealed Meng might be a big fan of Apple products.

According to the report, a court filing has revealed Meng had her iPhone 7 Plus, iPad Pro, and MacBook Air seized by Canadian police at the time of her arrest. Meng also had a Huawei Mate 20 RS Porsche Edition - the only Huawei product on her - taken as well with the Apple products.

Meng's lawyers are reportedly requesting a copy of the data stored on the seized devices, and for them to be sealed.

The revelation is somewhat of a blunder for Meng, who is CFO of Chinese tech giant Huawei, which makes smartphones, tablets, and laptops - all very good ones - that compete directly with Apple's.

Naturally, everyone's wondering why she's using Apple products if Huawei's own devices are supposed to be better, and some have already taken to Twitter with jabs at Huawei's security:

It may also be the case she was using Apple products to, ahem, study them. After all, you can't design products in a vacuum. But that seems unlikely - an iPhone 7 Plus is far from a cutting-edge phone in 2019 and neither is a MacBook Air (although, we have no idea which generation she had).

Meng getting caught with Apple products is just the latest in a string of embarrassing moments for Huawei.

Previously, the company demoted and docked pay from employees after they were caught tweeting a New Year's message on the company's Twitter account ... from an iPhone. Huawei's corporate senior vice president and director of the board, Chen Lifang, said "the incident caused damage to the Huawei brand."

Last year, Huawei was caught passing off photos taken with a DSLR as images from its P9 smartphone camera.

Whether Meng really is a big fan of Apple products is something we may never know, but it's still crazy to see a Huawei exec caught with so many of a competitor's products. Maybe next time, she should keep a MateBook X Pro in her bag.

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It's bad enough Huawei Chief Financial Official Wanzhou Meng, who was arrested last December in Vancouver on charges ranging from fraud to money laundering, faces decades of jail time. But now, a report from Bloomberg has revealed Meng might be a big fan of Apple products.

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Google News provides a comprehensive platform for various media sources from all over the world. They combine articles from different sources and make them available for Google users.

This article was found on google news, from The Star. The star is another reliable source of information and news. On the website of The Star, Perrin Grauer seeks to explain why Canada stood the best chance to represent the united states by capturing Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou.

The US has been seeking her arrest for a very long time. Her presence in Canada presented an opportunity for her arrest. It has been said that top authorities requested Canadian authorities to take her into custody. All of this is said to be due to the difficulties the US is facing with China in negotiating a beneficial trade deal.

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VANCOUVER-While "timing and opportunity" are the likeliest reasons Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada rather than Mexico, icy relations between Mexico and the U.S. and rhetoric around the "migrant caravan" may have sealed Canada's fate, according to analysts.

The high-profile tech executive was captured by law enforcement in Vancouver International Airport on her way to Mexico in December. At the time, U.S. authorities had been seeking her arrest for months, said Joseph V. Moreno, a former prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice, now a partner with Cadwalader in Wash., D.C.

"The Americans knew they could trust the Canadian intelligence law enforcement and political executive system" in the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, says Christian Leuprecht, professor of political science at Queen's University and the Royal Military College of Canada. (Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press)

"Most likely authorities leapt at this first chance they had to request Canadian authorities take her into custody," Moreno told the Star Vancouver in an email. "Odds are it was first and foremost a matter of timing and opportunity."

The decision to request Meng's extradition has catapulted Canada into an escalating dispute with an outraged Beijing. After her arrest on Dec. 1, Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were arrested in China, apparently in retaliation. A third Canadian, Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, was handed a death sentence in January after a one-day retrial on drug-related offences for which he'd already been tried and sentenced to prison.

Meng, meanwhile, filed a lawsuit against the RCMP, Canada Border Services Agency and Government of Canada on Friday, alleging her rights had been violated during the course of her arrest in December.

But Canada's deep historical ties to the U.S., both in terms of security goals and intelligence-sharing, virtually assured an extradition through the Canadian system was preferable for U.S authorities, said Christian Leuprecht, professor of political science at Queen's University and the Royal Military College of Canada.

"If you're going to pick the path of least resistance, where you're likely going to have the best chance of a successful outcome, then Canada would have been the next best jurisdiction if (the U.S.) can't detain the individual on U.S. jurisdiction itself," he told the Star Vancouver.

Since the establishment of the Permanent Joint Board on Defence in 1940, the security, intelligence and defence partnership between Canada and the U.S. has been extremely intimate, Leuprecht said. And not only does the Canadian judiciary represent a consistent and predictable mechanism for the treatment of extradition, Ottawa and the White House have a "very close, trusted relationship."

Such trust, he added, is essential to an extradition case surrounding a figure as high-profile as Meng, whose arrest Leuprecht said is "a little bit like arresting the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia."

Even outside of the pressures particular to Meng's case, extradition is an extraordinarily sensitive, time-consuming and resource-intensive undertaking, he said. Simply sharing an arrest warrant with another country risks a tip-off being leaked to the person of interest - or in Meng's case, to Huawei or Beijing.

"So, I think the other issue that played into this is that the Americans knew they could trust the Canadian intelligence law enforcement and political executive system that this arrest warrant would not become public, and the Chinese would not get wind of it," Leuprecht said.

"There's simply not the trust with Mexico, I think, to share that kind of high-level intelligence if you have the option of sharing it with Canada."

But the domestic political landscape within Mexico leading up to Meng's arrest may very well have cemented the American decision to lean on its bilateral agreement with Canada, rather than Mexico, said Emily Edmonds-Poli, associate professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of San Diego.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was inaugurated on Dec. 1 - the same day Meng was arrested, Edmonds-Poli pointed out. And leading up to his election, López Obrador had played the nationalist card heavily, she said, which may have unsettled U.S. authorities, given the tension already simmering between the U.S. and Mexico following the election of President Donald Trump.

"In many ways, I think people thought (López Obrador) was going to be this attack dog that used the anti-Trump, anti-American rhetoric as a basis for drumming up electoral support," Edmonds-Poli told the Star Vancouver.

"And that really didn't happen on the level that people were expecting, especially given his rhetoric before the campaign."

The so-called "migrant caravan" was also being mobilized as a political device in the U.S. in the weeks and months leading up to Meng's arrest, she said. And a changing Mexican administration may have spurred further uncertainty as to whether Mexico would assist the U.S. in keeping asylum seekers on the south side of the border.

Moreno, the former federal prosecutor, agreed turmoil between the White House and Mexico City could have influenced the U.S. plan for Meng's arrest.

"We're ... at a time when our U.S. relations with Mexico are a little strained, because of the immigration issue at the southern border," he told the Star Vancouver in a second telephone interview. "So it's certainly possible that these were strategic decisions made by the (U.S.) Justice Department as to which foreign country to work with to try to apprehend her."

Edmonds-Poli noted that in Mexico, although extradition is nominally granted by the foreign minister, it's the president who truly makes the final call.

"So there's a lot of discretion that comes from the executive office, and they can essentially instruct their foreign ministers to go ahead or to block things at any point," she added.

Amidst all the political and operational ambiguity roiling between the U.S. and Mexico, Meng's arrest in Canada likely not only represented a "bird in hand," she said, but a procedure with far fewer unknowns surrounding it.

Edmonds-Poli also noted that extradition between the U.S. and Canada or Mexico is primarily used for drug offences such as trafficking. But for cases between the U.S. and Mexico, the second most common reason for extradition requests is violent crimes, such as homicide and human trafficking.

White collar crimes, on the other hand - such as the charges which have been levelled against Meng and Huawei - are a more common motivation for the U.S. in seeking extradition from Canada, she said.

"In other words, it could be that the processes for handling white collar crime ... are just better established between the United States and Canada."

Whether Meng is ultimately committed to extradition by the courts - and whether the extradition request is ultimately granted by Canada's Justice Minster David Lametti - remains to be seen. Meng is due back in court in Vancouver on March 6, at which point the judge is expected to set future hearing dates.

Perrin Grauer is a Vancouver-based reporter covering community issues and Canada's drug policies. Follow him on Twitter: @perringrauer

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VANCOUVER-While "timing and opportunity" are the likeliest reasons Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada rather than Mexico, icy relations between Mexico and the U.S. and rhetoric around the "migrant caravan" may have sealed Canada's fate, according to analysts. The high-profile tech executive was captured by law enforcement in Vancouver International Airport on her way to Mexico in December.

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This article is another piece from CBC, one of Canada’s most reliable news sources. They make use of many media to bring news to their audience. Browsing their website on March 22, 2019, I found an article talking about a judge In British Columbia giving orders for Meng Wanzhou to have access to her data. Upon her arrest, he had no access to her iPhone, iPad, MacBook Air and her Huawei phone.

The judge instructed for copies of this data to be made and kept on devices provided by RCMP. The copies will be in possession of the RCMP while she can keep her gadgets. However, she still pleads not guilty and still has travel restrictions. She moves about wearing a tracking device.

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A B.C. judge orders RCMP to give Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou copies of data stored on her devices that were seized by the Canadian Border Services agents during her arrest in December.

Copies to be made from Meng Wanzhou's iPad, iPhone, MacBook Air, Huawei phone

A judge has ordered the RCMP to provide copies of content on seven electronic devices to an executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies after they were seized when she was arrested at Vancouver's airport late last year.

Justice Heather Holmes of the British Columbia Supreme Court says the RCMP must make copies for Meng Wanzhou of data on an iPhone, an iPad, a MacBook Air, a Huawei phone, two SIM cards and a flash drive.

In the order issued Friday after a brief court hearing, Holmes said Mounties must provide the electronics to the force's technical crime unit within three days so content can be extracted.

Two sealed copies of the data are to be transferred onto devices provided by the RCMP, which must keep them in a secure exhibit locker until they are provided to the court, along with the seized electronics.

The items were confiscated on Dec. 1 when Meng was taken into custody at the request of officials in the United States who are seeking her extradition on fraud charges.

Meng has been free on bail since Dec. 11 and is living in one of her two multimillion-dollar homes in Vancouver while wearing an electronic tracking device and being monitored by a security company.

She and Huawei have denied any wrongdoing.

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Sina Weibo is a social media platform primarily used by the Chinese. It has been aptly described as the twitter of China. With this app, the Chinese government officials and national news agency makes available news and communicate with the people of China.

On a google translated article, China was being ballistic. They accuse Canada of violating the said CFO’s human rights. Even though she was released on bail and resides comfortably, she is subject to some travel limitations. In retaliation to this act, the article speaks of China arresting two Canadians on vague national security grounds. These Canadian citizens do not have access to a lawyer, and they are being held without charge. Hence, they are being held by Beijing. However, Canada stands on the fact that Men’s case will be handled according to the rule of law.

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This piece is a post by CBC news on YouTube. YouTube is a very popular video sharing site with a lot of content on various aspects. It covers a vast majority of topics such as education, economic, political, social and live events.

For several years, CBC has been a major source of news for Canadians. This video covers the Huawei CFO suing some agencies in Canada. She has filed a civil claim against the RCMP, the Federal government of Canada and the Canada Border Services Agency. She claims, “serious breaches of her constitutional rights”. According to the suit, this occurred when she was detained, interrogated and searched at Vancouver international airport.

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This article is from a popular journalist Andrea Woo. She works for the globe and mail. She is interested in mental health, social justice, substance use and people. She uses Twitter, which is a social media platform used to share short content to the public. This tool is widely used today for communication.

This tweet shows one of Meng Wanzhou’s court appearances. After her arrest, she was released on bail and has made several visits to the court. During these, there have been a number of protesters on the streets and online. Some are in favour of Canada's action as we can see a man burning the Chinese flag. Likewise, there are many who are against Canada's actions.

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This social media element is a blog by Hugh Stephens. He is a popular blogger who dwells mostly on economic and political issues.

Here, he gives a brief origin of the problem and how Canada got involved. Huawei is now the world’s largest manufacturing company and they rank second in the supplies of smartphones worldwide. This company has had several accusations of late for IP theft, bank fraud and violations of legislative sanctions. This is also in coincidence with the major US-China trade border war.

The activities surrounding Ms. Meng's arrest has gotten Canada in very bad crisis with China. This could be said to have been the worst since both countries established diplomatic relations in 1970.

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For those of us who find copyright to be a fascinating field of study, copyright issues lurk everywhere. Thus when the US crusade against China's leading technology company, Huawei, hit the headlines with the arrest in Vancouver in December of the company's CFO Meng Wanzhou, I couldn't help but wonder if past allegations about the company's history of IP theft figured into the equation and whether there was a copyright angle to the story. Guess what? I think there is.

Much ink has been spilled about the standoff between the US and China over Huawei. Founded only in the late 1980s, Huawei is now the world's largest electronics manufacturing company and the second largest supplier of smartphones. Accusations against Huawei on grounds of IP theft, violation of sanctions legislation and wire and bank fraud have become a major issue in US-China relations at a time when a broader trade war is going on, and have simultaneously led to the worst crisis in Canada-China relations since the two countries established diplomatic relations in 1970 as Canada has become collateral damage in the dispute.

On January 28 of this year, the US Justice Department unsealed indictments against Huawei and specifically against Ms. Meng, the daughter of the company's founder, Ren Zhengfei. She is accused of bank fraud for deliberately misleading US financial institutions as to the relationship between Huawei and a subsidiary company, Skycom Technology, based in Hong Kong. The allegation is that Ms. Meng assured representatives of various US financial institutions that Huawei had severed all business linkages with Skycom, which was engaged in trade with Iran contrary to US sanctions legislation. On the basis of these reassurances the banks continued to do business with Huawei. However since Huawei had not divested control of Skycom, by continuing to finance Huawei activities, the banks were unwittingly breaking US sanctions laws, or so it is alleged. It's all a bit convoluted, and has yet to be proven in court but it has led to Canada finding itself as the meat in the sandwich of an escalating dispute between China and the US owing to Meng's arrest by Canadian authorities, on behalf of the US government, while she was in transit in Vancouver enroute to Latin America. She will soon face a hearing to determine if she will be extradited to the US.

In the face of the arrest, China went ballistic, accusing Canada of violating Meng's human rights even though she was released on bail and now resides comfortably, subject to some travel limitations, in her multi-million dollar home in Vancouver. In retaliation, China arrested two Canadians on vague national security grounds and has been holding them ever since without charge or access to a lawyer, in very uncomfortable circumstances. They are in effect being held hostage by Beijing. Meanwhile, the Canadian government has said that Meng's case will be dealt with according to the rule of law and under those rules she will be given every opportunity to mount a legal defence against extradition.

Then the former Canadian ambassador to China, John McCallum, waded into the debate, stating publicly that he thought she had a good chance of fighting extradition, especially given President Trump's ill-considered comments that he would consider intervening in the US Justice Department's case against Meng if it would help conclude a trade deal with China. McCallum's enthusiasm for Meng's cause put him at odds with the official Canadian position that the case would be dealt with strictly in accordance with the law, and should not be politicized. This cost him his job. He was fired by Prime Minister Trudeau the same day he went public with his view that it would be "great" if the US just dropped its extradition request.

That didn't happen. Indeed just two days after McCallum's forced resignation the US DOJ unveiled a litany of charges against Huawei, and formally filed for Meng's extradition. These charges included the aforementioned charges against Meng but also other related charges brought through a separate indictment in Seattle relating to Huawei industrial espionage against T-Mobile, specifically the illegal acquisition of proprietary information about a cellphone-testing robot known as "Tappy". The Tappy case is not new, dating back to 2014 when T-Mobile brought a civil case accusing Huawei employees of illegally accessing the secure facilities where Tappy was stored, photographing the device, disassembling it and accessing software source codes. Two years later a jury awarded T-Mobile $4.8 million in damages, and Huawei apologized, stating that its employees had violated company policies. They were then fired.

Firing "rogue employees" seems to be part of Huawei's playbook. The same thing happened recently in Poland where Huawei fired a Chinese employee who was detained (along with a Polish national) for spying, stating that he had brought the company into disrepute. Rogue employees or not, the US Justice Department alleges that theft of IP is part of the company's standard operating procedure and that employees are specifically incentivized to search out and illicitly obtain proprietary information belonging to other companies. Huawei is accused of instituting a system of rewards for employees providing stolen information, with the degree of incentive tied to the value of the information provided.

The most recent indictment in Washington State accuses Huawei of conspiracy to steal trade secrets, attempted theft of trade secrets and wire fraud (for communicating plans to steal trade secrets and to cover them up). The indictment points out that Huawei violated non-disclosure agreements with T-Mobile in which it promised that it would not "(a) photograph T-Mobile's Tappy robotic testing system; (b) attempt to copy or discover Tappy's software source codes or trade secrets; (c) attempt to reverse engineer Tappy's software or hardware components; and (d) attempt to circumvent any security measures that prevented unauthorized access to Tappy".

The potential theft of copyright in this litany of alleged transgressions is admittedly only a small part of the picture and not part of the formal charges. For one thing, theft of trade secrets lends itself more readily to criminal charges. In addition a number of the allegations go beyond copyright theft so theft of trade secrets is more encompassing. (None of the charges against Ms. Meng personally involve IP infringements but instead relate to financial fraud arising from violation of the Iran sanctions law.) Nonetheless, copying unauthorized confidential technical information from T-Mobile, while a violation of trade secrets legislation if proven, is also likely an infringement of T-Mobile's copyrights in its software source code as well as the way in which the software works. As lawyer Chad Rutkowski has written in his commentary for his law firm Baker Hostetler:
Many lawyers hold on to the notion that copyright protection for software is weak because such protection inheres in the source code of computer programs. Because most companies that generate code take extensive (and often successful) measures to keep source code out of the hands of third parties, the utility of copyright protection for code is often viewed as limited. However, copyright also extends to the "non-literal elements" of computer programs, such as their sequence, structure and organization, as well as to things such as screen displays and certain user interfaces. In other words, copyright infringement can occur when copying certain outputs of the code without there ever having been access to the underlying code itself.
Given the charges that Huawei did knowingly and without authorization " copy, duplicate, sketch, draw, photograph, download, replicate, deliver, send, communicate and convey" T-Mobile's trade secrets including its computer software code and sequencing of computer commands, there is every reason to believe that copyright theft has also occurred. One of Huawei's employees wrote back to his superiors in China, "I think we have a lot of work to improve our robot performance. The difference between (the) two is not only hardware but also (most importantly) the software. TMO (T-Mobile) has spend (sic) much more money on software than hardware". Copyright infringement is not new to Huawei. Cisco sued them back in 2003, but subsequently dropped the suit after Huawei agreed to drop production of products (routers etc) that directly competed with Cisco. Patent infringement was also part of this case.

The US dispute with Huawei has many dimensions that go well beyond the case against Ms. Meng, accusations of theft of trade secrets, and infringement of copyright. The US government is concerned that use of Huawei equipment in 5G infrastructure represents a security threat because of "backdoors" that could be installed into the equipment. Such backdoors could permit illegal access to communications or even crippling of critical infrastructure, it is alleged. While Huawei has vigorously denied any installation of backdoors and bugs, and challenged western countries to come forward with proof, the bottom line seems to be that because Huawei is a Chinese company, and thus ultimately answerable to Beijing, it cannot be trusted. The US government has banned Huawei equipment from installation in government infrastructure, and is likely to require US companies not to use Huawei as a supplier. It is also leaning on its allies within the intelligence community (notably the UK and Canada) to do the same.

Copyright is only one piece of this complex puzzle that has many dimensions; international politics, the future of 5G technology, a high profile extradition, Canada-China relations and a US-China trade and technology war. It is difficult to predict how it will all be resolved. However, as I noted at the outset, what is fascinating about copyright is its connection to so many other issues. Copyright infringement may not be at the top of Huawei's list of problems but its apparently cavalier attitude toward the protection that copyright and other forms of IP provide to rights holders appears to lie at the root of its miseries.

© Hugh Stephens, 2019. All Rights Reserved.

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The US Case Against Huawei: The Copyright Angle

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For those of us who find copyright to be a fascinating field of study, copyright issues lurk everywhere. Thus when the US crusade against China's leading technology company, Huawei, hit the headlines with the arrest in Vancouver in December of the company's CFO Meng Wanzhou, I couldn't help but wonder if past allegations about the...

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Introduction

The entire Canada-Huawei saga, begun with the arrest of Huawei’s chief financial officer. This however was Canada interfering with the United state’s business with China regarding the same company Huawei. Canada is now termed as being caught between two economic giants, USA and China as Canada has significant relations with both countries.

The climax of this case for Canada was the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, who doubles as CFO and daughter of Huawei’s chief executive officer, Ren Zhengfei. Canada is said to have followed instructions from the United states. She was accused of bank fraud and deliberately misleading US based financial institutions as to a relationship with Huawei and Skycom (a Hong Kong subsidiary).

Meng Wanzhou’s arrest was issued based on the extradition act. Due to this act, the United states has also formerly called for the extradition of the CFO. The white house also made statements on case, saying she will get involved if the case will establish a new beneficial trade deal with china.