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China warned Canada on Saturday (8) that the country could suffer serious consequences if it did not immediately release Huawei's chief financial officer, calling the episode "extremely unpleasant".
Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's Chief Financial Officer, was arrested in Canada on December 1 and is facing extradition to the United States, who allegedly discovered that she was hiding her company's ties with a company that was trying to sell equipment to Iran despite the sanctions.
is also the daughter of the founder of Huawei.
Meng could be charged with conspiracy to defraud several financial institutions, a Canadian court said Friday (7), with a maximum penalty of 30 days.
No decision was taken at the extradition hearing, after six hours of arguments and counter-arguments, and the hearing took place [19659002] In a brief statement, the Chinese Foreign Minister said that his deputy minister, Yucheng, had launched the alert to release Meng from the Canadian ambbadador to Beijing, summoning him to "
Adam Austen, spokesman for Canadian Chancellor Chrystia Freeland, said on Saturday: "There is nothing to add to what the minister said yesterday. "
Freeland told reporters on Friday, relations with China are important and valued, and the Canadian Ambbadador to Beijing badured China that consular access would be granted to Meng. [19659002] Asked about China's possible reaction after the arrest of Huawei's chief financial officer Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters on Friday that relations between Canada and Beijing were very good.
L & # 39; Meng's arrest in Canada at the request of the United States, while she was changing aircraft in Vancouver you "
The measure" ignored the law was unreasonable "and, by its very nature "was extremely rude".
"China strongly urges Canada to immediately release the arrested person and seriously protect his legal and lawful rights, otherwise Canada must badume full responsibility for the grave consequences caused."
The press release n & # 39, did not go into the details.
"There will probably be a complete freeze, visits and exchanges with the Chinese at the highest level," said Canada's former ambbadador to China David Mulroney on Friday.
"The possibility of talking about free trade will be put in the fridge for a while, but it will have to live with it … it's the price to pay to deal with a country like China."
Meng's arrest comes the same day that US President Donald Trump met Xi Jinping in Argentina to find ways to resolve one by one. worst trade war between the two largest economies in the world
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