Chinese Warn of Western ‘Iron Curtain’ After Huawei Arrest
Many in China see the arrest of Meng Wanzhou as a tactic by the U.S. in the larger trade dispute
As Washington-Beijing relations teeter, Chinese tech titan Huawei's chief financial officer has been arrested in Canada and faces extradition to the U.S. But Meng Wanzhou, aka Sabrina Meng, isn’t your garden-variety executive; she’s the company founder’s daughter. Photo: EPA
BEIJING—The arrest of a senior Huawei Technologies Co. executive at the request of the U.S. sparked outrage in China, with people criticizing it as a tactic to weaken a leading Chinese company and Beijing’s resolve in the trade fight with the U.S.
On Chinese social media, people protested the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s chief financial officer, while she changed planes in Vancouver. Chinese descended on the official accounts of the Canadian and U.S. embassies on the Twitter-like service Weibo, posting thousands of angry...