Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng urgently summoned Canadian ambassador John McCallum to lodge a strong protest against Meng’s detention.
China has threatened Canada with grave consequences if a senior executive at telecommunications major Huawei, who was arrested in Vancouver on December 1 at the request of United States’ authorities, is not immediately released, Xinhua reported.
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng on Saturday urgently summoned Canadian ambassador John McCallum to lodge a strong protest against the detention of Meng Wanzhou.
Meng Wanzhou faces fraud charges in the US for allegedly covering up her company’s links to a firm that tried to sell equipment to Iran despite sanctions. She was detained while changing planes in Vancouver.
