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Title: Americas Anti-Huawei Op: The Inside Story of the Meng Wanzhou Arrest
Published: 2018-12-19
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2_ThqusqOY
Title: Americas Anti-Huawei Op: The Inside Story of the Meng Wanzhou Arrest
Published: 2018-12-19
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2_ThqusqOY
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Hello, I am Peter Lee for NewsBuds, China Watch. This week on China Watch, unpacking America's anti-Qualwe op, the inside story of the arrest of Mengwan Zhou. The hot, hot, hot story in China watching is the arrest in Vancouver on December 1st of Mengwan Zhou, the chief financial officer of Chinese telecom giant Huawei, on charges relating to violation of US sanctions against Iran. Even though there is2/8
no recorded precedent for arresting a corporate executive for fraud sanctions beef with the threat of 30 years in prison, this blatant act of economic and legal warfare was vigorously defended by mainstream scribes as just another example of the superior western system of rule by law to be contrasted with the lousy non-rule by law thing that China uses to intimidate and extort its adversaries around the world.3/8
King of the Journal Hawks, Josh Rogan, schooled the ignorant on Twitter. Hey guys, Trump didn't arrest the Huawei executive as a bargaining chip in trade talks that Justice Department is charging her with crimes. The timing was a co-incidence. Well, Coenka didn't do. Donald Trump weighed in and blew that talking point out of the water. Exclusive, Trump says he could intervene in US case against Huawei CFO.4/8
If I think it's good for what will certainly be the largest trade deal ever made, which is a very important thing, what's good for national security, I would certainly intervene if I thought it was necessary. That earth-shaking story dropped on December 11th and occasioned around of Pearl Clutching from the prestige press. Take it away, Washington Post's Emily Rahala. If Trump said this, it goes against everything5/8
we've heard from US and Canadian governments this week would be a huge win for China, which has always argued that US moves were political. Not legal. Well, not quite everything we've heard, Emily. Back on December 6th, right after the arrest was announced, Jake Tapper tweeted, Trump administration official tells Pamela Brown CNN there's a plan for the US to seek extra-dition of Huawei technology CFO Mo'wan Jo6/8
arrested yesterday in Canada. The view among some officials is that she could be used as leverage with China in trade talks. Maybe if Big Media was less interested in performing a sigitous steno for its net-sex sources and wasn't so committed to packaging and protecting the fiction that Meng's detention was an ordinary law enforcement matter, we might get some useful understanding of the US government's Huawei app.7/8
Well, since Big Media is manifestly not up to the job, fortunately there's newsbud and China watch. As I pointed out in my last episode, the China Witch Hunt, it's here! Pretty much everything you read here and see in the Big Media outlets about China these days is part of a big info op designed to cow and marginalize pro-China voices, accelerate polarization between the PRC and the8/8
United States, and prepare public opinion for something big, expensive and stupid, like a so-called limited war with China. You know it's coming and the best way to see what's coming and get out of the way is to subscribe to NewsBud and view China Watch. Navigate to NewsBud to subscribe or if money's tight, rent this episode on Vimeo. You'll be glad you did.
