Meng Wanzhou, who is also the daughter of the company's founder, denies the charges, which China says are politically motivated as part of a U.S. effort to stifle the nation's economic expansion.

Despite its disavowals of any connection, Beijing has repeatedly tied the detentions to the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial officer and the daughter of the company's founder.

In 2018, the second year into his tenure as ambassador, he repeatedly condemned the Canadian government for the arrest of Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou.

The documents, spanning late December 2018 to May 2019, showed Global Affairs giving this advice after Beijing had just arrested Canadian citizens in early December 2018 following Canada's arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.

That followed the December 2018 arrest of Huawei Technologies Ltd. executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver on U.S. charges of lying to the Hong Kong arm of the British bank HSBC about possible dealings with Iran in violation of trade sanctions.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has strongly refuted a claim by China’s ambassador to Canada that “there’s no connection” between the detention of two Canadian citizens in China and Canada’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.

A man holds a placard calling for China to release Canadian detainees Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig outside a court hearing for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou at the B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, Canada, on March 6, 2019.

However, such cases are almost always predetermined in China, and Beijing is seen as using Kovrig and Spavor as leverage to obtain the release of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, who was arrested at the request of the U.S. at the airport in Vancouver in

Justice Department allowed Meng Wanzhou, the CFO of China’s telecom giant Huawei who was in Canada fighting extradition to the United States for a federal fraud case, to go back to China.

Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou arrives with a security detail at the British Columbia Supreme Court, in Vancouver, Canada, on March 6, 2019.

As a small and outspoken country, Sweden and its companies in China—like Canada and its company Canada Goose during and after the Meng Wanzhou crisis—were relatively easy targets for Beijing’s retaliation.

“We once again urge the Canadian side to meet China halfway, take measures to correct mistakes, immediately and properly resolve the Meng Wanzhou incident and make concrete efforts to bring China-Canada relations back on the right track,” said spokesperson

On the same day, Trudeau said Canada wouldn’t give in to Beijing’s pressure on the case of Meng Wanzhou, the Huawei executive arrested in Canada on a U.S. extradition request.

The two countries’ relationship went downhill after the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, the CFO of Chinese telecom company Huawei, in December 2018.

During this briefing, he praised the CCP's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and called on Canada to release Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, who had been arrested in Canada due to a U.S. extradition request on fraud charges.

The Meng Case Xie said one of the main factors behind Sun's case dragging on for over three years before sentencing, and the very long prison sentence handed down June 30, is the case of Meng Wanzhou.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has taken a hard line against Canada following the 2018 arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver on a U.S. extradition request.

Kovrig and Spavor have been arbitrarily detained in a Chinese prison on baseless charges since December 2018, following the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver on a U.S. extradition warrant.

They have been jailed since December 2018, soon after Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies and the daughter of Ren Zhengfi, the founder of the Chinese telecom giant.

Canadians Michael Spavor (L) and Michael Kovrig have been detained in China since shortly after Canada arrested Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver in December 2018.

Wanzhou to the United States, a key Huawei figure wanted for violating U.S. sanctions against Iran.

Most Canadians are familiar with the nightmares endured by Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, the two Michaels imprisoned for almost three years because they were unlucky enough to be in China when Canada arrested Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver.

Huawei's Financial Chief Meng Wanzhou leaves her family home in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on May 8, 2019.

They were swept up more than two years ago in an apparent act of retaliation for Canada agreeing to arrest and detain Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou to await extradition south of the border, where she's accused of violating U.S. sanctions on Iran.

Wanzhou nine days earlier at the request of the United States.

Relations between China and Canada took a hit last December after Vancouver police detained Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co, on a U.S. arrest warrant.

The home of Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on Sept. 23, 2019.

Several actions were taken during the past few years, including Canada’s house arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, international retailers’ boycott of Xinjiang-harvested cotton, U.S. sanctions and trade restrictions affecting Chinese state-linked companies

Given that the basic facts of lying on official documents and failing to report income have been applied to a variety of high-profile individuals—from ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort to Huawei royalty Meng Wanzhou—there is a clear pattern of using

A decision on a key legal aspect of the trial over whether Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou can be extradited to the United States from Canada will be announced May 27, the British Columbia Supreme Court said on Thursday.