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    ChronoReverse said:
    I'm a ethnic Hong Kong Chinese Canadian citizen so I'm extremely biased but I'm feeling plenty of schadenfreude.

    Canada arrested Huawei's "princess daughter" of their CEO on an extradition order based on our treaty with the USA (aka, we're just following the law and our existing agreements).

    China has been exerting massive pressure on Canada to break the rules for them to the point of putting arrested (and already convicted for prison) Canadians on death row and making up quality charges against various products we sell to China (e.g., canola oil, pork, etc.) in order to cut off the purchases altogether as an economic attack.

    "Disliked" is putting mildly how many of us feel about China.
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    Hong Kong has extradition treaty with the US but it didn't stop them from finding excuse not to detain Edward Snowden. Given the status of her you would be a fool not to treat this as a political issue rather than a simple legal matter - when Trudeau treated SNC Levalin as a political issue it is pretty clear that they also game the legal system to their own political advantage. Canada simply chose to appease US over China.

    Still, this does not mean China can arbitrary detain Canadian and/or "upgrade" the sentence of the convicted and Trudeau should have a tougher stance on that.
     
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