Chinese media slams Huawei exec’s arresthome/Business/Foreign Business/Chinese media slams Huawei exec’s arrestBEIJING: Chinese state-run media on Friday condemned the arrest in Canada of a top executive of telecommunications giant Huawei on a US extradition request as a “despicable rogue’s approach” to contain Chinese high-tech ambitions. But Chinese media cast the move as an assault on the development of the country’s high-tech industry. China has lodged diplomatic protests over the arrest and has repeatedly asked the US and Canada to “clarify” reasons for the arrest. Chinese netizens have criticizsed Meng’s arrest on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like platform, where online trolls sometimes deliberately incite nationalist fervour or pro-government stances. Trump’s national security advisor, John Bolton, said he knew that Canada was planning to arrest Meng, but he declined to discuss specifics of the case.

Source: Manila Times December 07, 2018 17:48 UTC