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by peterkelly 2537 days ago
Like how the CFO of Huawei has been detained in Canada since December of last year?

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/05/tech/huawei-cfo-arrested-...
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_iyig 2537 days ago
She was credibly accused of a crime. The Koch executive wasn’t formally accused of anything, according to the article, not that such formalities matter in a system such as China’s.
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freeflight 2536 days ago
> She was credibly accused of a crime.

The "crime" of breaking sanctions against Iran, which happened after the US left JCPOA to reinstate said sanctions against Iran.

Which was a very convenient way to manufacture the "formalities" to arrest the Huawei CFO.

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ABCLAW 2536 days ago
Sorry, this is bullshit. Huawei structured the Iran deal to obfuscate that they were providing the equipment in question.

Not only did they know they weren't allowed to sell telecom equipment to Iran, they intentionally tried to do so while hiding it.

Don't pretend this was a secret post facto play by the US to strike at China. It wasn't.

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