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Trump expresses openness to using Huawei CFO as bargaining chip in China trade talks
President Donald Trump said Tuesday his administration is open to using the arrest of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou as a bargaining chip in ongoing trade negotiations with China.
Asked by Reuters in an interview if he would intervene in the case, Trump said, “Whatever’s good for this country, I would do.”
He continued, “If I think it’s good for what will be certainly the largest trade deal ever made — which is a very important thing — what’s good for national security — I would certainly intervene if I thought it was necessary.”
Meng was arrested December 1 in Canada during a layover at Vancouver International Airport at the request of the US government. The United States alleges that Meng helped Huawei get around US sanctions on Iran by telling financial institutions such as HSBC that a Huawei subsidiary, Skycom, was a separate and unaffiliated company.
Meng was released on a $10 million Canadian bail ($7.5 million US), after a judge in Canada granted her request earlier Tuesday. She faces extradition to the United States.
As a condition of her release, Meng has agreed to surrender her passports and live in one of her homes in Vancouver. She will also pay for a round-the-clock security detail and wear a GPS ankle bracelet.
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CNN
