China is already talking about the "declaration of war" of the United States

A column of Nelson de Sá in Folha de S.Paulo informs that Hu Xijin, the delightful editor of the tabloid Huanqiu / Global Times, linked to the Chinese PC, wrote in the Chinese social network Weibo about the Huawei Technology Prisoner Huawei's Executive: "It is obvious that the United States is pushing the line of battle to our door … We can fully consider the arrest of Meng Wanzhou as a declaration of war against China. "

According to the publication, cited in the report. The website of Huawei and newspapers of the New York Times West to the German Süddeutsche Zeitung, who used this term in his appeal. In a more moderate tone, Hu Xijin's newspaper made the front page of the fifth day: "China calls for the release of Huawei's executive." In an editorial, he claimed that "the United States is abusing the legal process to smother Huawei". The British Financial Times did not hide the alarm bell, the headline being even more loaded: "China calls for the release of the Huawei director arrested under the US charge."

Americans such as the NYT, the Wall Street Journal and the Drudge Report preferred to announce that the arrest overturned the New York Stock Exchange. In the first, "the markets collapse with a prison that raises fear of the cold war between the United States and China". In the background, John Bolton, Donald Trump's National Security Advisor, confessed to NPR that he knew Meng would be arrested by the G20.