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China Calls For Release of Arrested Huawei CFO Detained In Canada (nbcnews.com)
China is demanding the release of a senior executive at Huawei after she was detained in Canada on extradition charges to the U.S. Wanzhou Meng, who is also the deputy chair of Huawei's board and the daughter of company founder Ren Zhengfei, is suspected of violating U.S. trade sanctions against Iran. NBC News reports: The arrest of Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer and daughter of the company's founder Ren Zhengfei, spooked investors with U.S. stocks tumbling on fears of a flare-up in Chinese-U.S. tensions. She was arrested in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Dec. 1. China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said officials have been contacted both in the U.S. and Canada to demand Meng's release. Geng Shuang, a spokesman for the ministry, said her detention needed to be explained, and both countries had to "effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of the person concerned." A spokesperson for Huawei said in a statement that it "complies with all applicable laws and regulations where it operates, including applicable export control and sanction laws and regulations."
Trump isn't actually in control of this. It would be illegal and improper for him to intervene, in fact he wasn't even notified by DOJ that the action was pending. It's unclear he even has actual pardoning power for this,
but certainly not before the charges have even been brought, that's just a misapprehension about how DOJ works even as it is an Exec branch Dept.
It sounds like there's a counter-espionage aspect of this case as well, further reducing any chance of even a fucking moron like the aforementioned involving himself inappropriately... but then, you never know do you.
No. This is about the U.S. crying to other countries to not buy Huawei equipment after they're not willing to buy the backdoored spying equipment from Cisco and Juniper any more, and instead opting for Huawei.
This is the U.S. literally panicking about the world replacing their spying equipment, and now they're grasping at everything.
And...plenty of Americans have been jailed in China.
How many American citizens have been jailed after being extradited for breaking a Chinese law while living in America?
How many of them were arrested while changing planes in a 3rd country?
Huawei has offices in America. This could have been dealt with through the civil courts.
Just because America has the power to be a bully, doesn't mean we should be one.
Here's a question SCOTUS has NOT yet ruled on.
Can a President pardon *himself*?
Most legal scholars say "yes, but Burdick v. United States would almost guarantee impeachment".
Under Burdick, accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt. If a President were to pardon himself, he would be admitting guilt. Based on this admission (and the ugliness of pardoning oneself), impeachment would follow.