The Communist Party of China (CPP), the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party, issued a statement warning of dire consequences if the Canadian authorities refused to release Ms. Ming Wanzo, Huawei's executive director and daughter of the company's founder, who was arrested in Canada earlier this month.
The Canadian police have ignored the spirit of the law and have asserted that Canada will pay a heavy price for violating the legitimate rights of Chinese citizens and should provide an appropriate explanation for the Chinese people, but the spokesman of the Canadian Embassy in Beijing has not commented immediate.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry issued an official statement saying that Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Lu Yucheng issued a warning to release Wanzo to Canada's ambassador and called on him to make "strong arguments" on the issue.
"There is nothing that can be added to what the secretary said yesterday," Canadian Foreign Ministry spokesman Adam Austin told reporters on Wednesday, stressing the importance of relations between her country and China. The Canadian ambassador in Beijing also said consular access would be available to "Enzo" .
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said last Friday that Canada had "very good relations" with Beijing, while David Mulleroney, the former Canadian ambassador to Beijing, disagreed. "There will probably be a deep freeze with Chinese in high-level visits and exchanges. "
The Canadian authorities have arrested Wanzo on December 1 at Vancouver Airport, according to the Globe and Mail newspaper, while changing planes on its way from Hong Kong to Mexico, where John Gibbs Carly, a lawyer at the Canadian Department of Justice, A memorandum of arrest for "Wanzo" in the eastern region of New York, and the Ministry of Justice Canada issued a memorandum to Ming and Enzo on 30 November last, when I learned that it will change the aircraft at the airport, "Vancouver."