MAGA turns heat on China: Daughter of Huawei founder/CFO arrested over Iran sanctions

[Swordsmyth]

Canada's largest grain processor said Tuesday that Beijing has canceled its registration to ship canola seed to China, fueled by the arrest of a top executive for the Chinese tech giant Huawei, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The move suggests that rising diplomatic tensions between China and Canada are damaging commerce between the two countries. Tensions have already crushed hopes that senior officials in Ottawa and Beijing would develop further trade ties.

The import ban against Richardson International Ltd. is due to a series of Chinese non-compliance notices declaring some shipments of canola seed from Canada were contaminated with "hazardous pests." Canadian officials disputed that claim.

"I am very concerned by what we've heard has happened to Richardson. We do not believe there's any scientific basis for this," Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said in Montreal.
"We are working very, very hard with the Chinese government on this issue."

Revoking the import license comes as Canada is advancing an extradition hearing for Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou. She was arrested in early December by the Canadain government at the request of the Trump administration, where she was wanted on fraud charges.
The Canola Council of Canada, located in Winnipeg, told the Journal that Richardson is a major player in the country’s canola seed to China.
Derek Brewin, a professor of agriculture economics at the University of Manitoba, said the Canadian agricultural and food manufacturing company easily controls 20% of total Canadian export capacity for grains and oilseeds.
The canola council said 40% of the industry’s exports end up in China.
Canada’s agriculture department said the country’s top agricultural export to China is canola seed, with sales valued at $2.05 billion per annum.

A spokesman for the council said, “We are aware of challenges our exporters have faced shipping to China—these are concerning as they create instability and add costs.”
The Journal didn't say, but the ban went into effect March 01 - as per a document of approved shippers was published on the website of the Chinese customs administration.


More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-...ing-diplomatic

[AZJoe]

Huawei Strikes Back – Washington Empire Fears Of Being Left Behind, Fails To Hack Into Huawei To Spy

Huawei, after being attacked by the U.S. for so long, has decided to strike back. The ongoing campaign by the Trump administration to shut the Chinese giant out of global 5G markets on national security grounds has affected its business. …

So at MWC Barcelona, the US government and Huawei Technologies Co engaged in what appeared to be a “no holds barred” fight. …

Mr Robert Strayer, who leads cybersecurity policy at the US State Department, said American officials had “substantial concerns” over state-ordered spying. Calling on executives and governments at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Spain to avoid Huawei like a plague …

As far back as 2012, Huawei and ZTE Corp were the subjects of an investigation that looked into whether their equipment could pose a threat to U.S. interests. Since then, the U.S. has been warning its allies against using Huawei technology …

Meanwhile, Huawei’s rotating Chairman Guo Ping … pointed to a US federal law that compels U.S. tech companies to provide law enforcement officials with the requested data stored on servers – even if they are located on foreign soil. … Heck, Guo Ping even poked fun at United States’ hypocrisy … asking – “Prism, prism on the wall, who is the most trustworthy of them all? It is a very important question and if you don’t answer that, you can go and ask Edward Snowden.” … referring to … NSA’s use of US-made telecom equipment for spying. PRISM, exposed by Snowden in 2013, is a code name for a program under which the NSA collects internet communications from various U.S. internet companies. …

PRISM … accounts for 91% of the NSA’s internet traffic acquired under FISA section 702 authority. … America’s allies in the EU were angered over the NSA phone-tapping scandal in 2013, including tapping on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone. …

The Snowden leaks exposed how the NSA’s leaders were seeking to “collect it all”. … every electronic communication sent, or phone call made, by everyone in the world – every day. The leaked documents also showed that the NSA maintains “corporate partnerships” with certain US technology and telecoms companies that allow it to “gain access to high-capacity fiber-optic cables, switches and/or routers across the world”.

As far back as 2012, a report produced by the House Intelligence Committee has labelled Huawei as a threat to the U.S. … The problem arises when the NSA faces Huawei. Operating in more than 170 countries … the Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer does not report, let alone comply, to NSA request. …

That was why the NSA tried to hack into Huawei’s servers, but failed. “Many of our targets communicate over Huawei-produced products. We want to make sure that we know how to exploit these products.” … cites a 2010 NSA document. Hence, Huawei’s success has become an obstacle for the NSA to “collect it all”, hindering the US agency’s efforts to spy on whomever it wants, whenever it wants.

Huawei’s refusal to play ball is one of the real reasons leading to the U.S. international war against the Chinese telecoms giant, …

US laws, including the recent CLOUD Act, “empower the US government to compel telecoms companies to assist” in US global surveillance …

[timosman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvIKUIbKc6w

New film based on arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou exposes company's lies and political intimidation, as CEO says they face "life or death crisis"

https://clawsofthereddragon.com/