I have no sympathy for any American business person who gets arrested in China. Bring the jobs and capital back to America. Rot in the Chinese jails for all I care.
So, the US is supposed to just ignore it when Chinese companies violate the Iran sanctions with impunity? China wasn’t even party to Obama’s BS “deal” with China, which had no backing in law in the first place. It went away with the stroke of Trump’s pen just as it came into existence with one from Obama’s. If Huawei wants to violate international law they should be ready to face the consequences.
Jail time would be cake!
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s hacked server lead to the murder of 18-20 Chinese CIA assets. No one talks about that any more.
Huh.
What are they going to do to American companies doing business there to retaliate? Force them to give up their trademark procedures and manufacturing secrets and such in order to keep doing business there?
Outrageous! They would never do that!
Oh, wait...
Is that the same China, within ten years of Iranian nuclear might, that is reeducating Muslims?
I think the Huawei guy needs some reeducation himself.
Obama sure had some cowardly fools working on trade.
Fortunately the Chinese have kept their markets closed to the USA and thus limited just how many American businesses are doing business in china, except as buyers that is.
It was the Canadian government that turned him over to the U.S.
Did P.M. Justin Trudeau ok this? Hard to see that he didn't.
The arrest is related to violations of U.S. sanctions, a person familiar with the matter said. Reuters was unable to determine the precise nature of the violations.
You would think the Canadians would have to have a reason to arrest someone...
Who greenlit the arrest?
Haven’t seen ANYTHING about that. Somebody in the US asked the Canadians to do it (apparently, though I may not believe that either). Eyebrows may have done it just to screw with us.
At this point, why does the US need China?
We can make more stuff in the US and trade with East Asian countries that ring China. We will also, thankfully, be forced to make products of strategic and military importance here.
China is a dangerous state. It’s too bad that their people haven’t stood up to the totalitarianism and authoritarian government. It’s been that way for nearly 70 years. But, ultimately, you have to blame the people and their culture for these abuses.
“Bring the jobs and capital back to America. Rot in the Chinese jails for all I care”
Dead on.
Jeff Moon and the other “trade representatives” who sold us out for the last 30 years can GTH.
You mean the businessmen who sold their soul and intellectual property of just about anything we’ve ever made, for a “mess of pottage” ? THOSE businessmen? Did they not know they were lying down in a snakepit when they aGREED to get rich there?
If China wants to end up on the ropes, they can try some serious counter-punching, but the longer the bout goes, the bloodier they will be when the Ref raises Trump’s (America’s) right arm in triumph...
“Meanwhile, officials from major U.S. companies at a meeting in Singapore on Thursday voiced concerns about retaliation against American firms and their executives, Reuters reported, citing people with knowledge of the meeting. Several attendees said their companies were considering restricting travel to China and looking to move meetings outside the country, Reuters reported.”