Meng in Canada: Hearing Approved

      Ms. Meng Wenzhou, CFO of Huawei, is still cooling her heels in Vancouver, B.C.  After 3 months under arrest, she will continue waiting for a court decision regarding extradition to the U.S.  The company has continued its publicity campaign around the world to counter the perception that the company is nothing more than an aggressive intelligence gathering arm of the PLA, or Peoples Liberation Army.   Ms. Meng's Father, founder of Huawei, was a former officer of the PLA working in intelligence areas.   Many countries around the world have moved to block the Huawei company as it tries to build 5G networks on foreign landscapes in efforts to sell products that are believed to contain components that gather data from users that is then stored and sent back to China.  The U.S. has been aggressive in its moves to contain these activities.
     Ms. Meng was arrested in Vancouver as she prepared to board a plane to return to China.  The request for extradition came from the US Dept. of Justice.  Initially, she was incarcerated in jail, but has since been released with monitors and her passport has been taken.  She owns two properties in Vancouver and has been living in one of them.
     Media outlets in the US, to include the Wall Street Journal and the NY TImes, have printed ads featuring remarks by Huawei to deflect criticisms of the country.  This is the country that has rounded up hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and placed them in compounds for "re-education".  This tactic by Communist governments is well known.  It is used extensively against opposition groups that have fallen out of favor or who oppose policies of the central government.  In this case, they oppose the power grab tactics of the leader for life: Xi Jing Ping, head of all things Communist in China.
      The Judge in the case has issued a decision that said there is sufficient evidence to hold the extradition hearing requested by the US.  This should happen sooner rather than later.