The United States Department of Justice is asking a judge in New York to drop all the charges it laid against Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.
This after the U.S. filed an application to extradite her from British Columbia to face its charges that she sold electronic communications stuff to Iran in contravention of U.S. law.
This after the Chinese government expressed its anger with Canada for engaging the Canadian courts to deal with the extradition request.
This after China banned a number of Canadian companies from selling it pork and canola.
The whole affair has gone on for four years. And now, nothing!
Canada gets no compensation, not even a thank you, from the United States.
Canada’s relations with China have been harmed.
And this doesn’t even count the trade disruptions that former U.S. President Donald Trump caused with his tariffs on China. And it was the Trump administration that started this whole Meng Wanhou fiasco.
I hope the Canadian politicians in Ottawa will simply ignore any similar extradition requests filed by the United States.
Fat chance of that happening!
