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Re: Huawei's offices in France raided by financial prosecutors

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CNN Lite: https://lite.cnn.com/2024/02/09/tech/china-huawei-france-fin...

Wow. Never knew about CNN Lite. It loads instantly like good websites should and the content is readable because ads are not flying in from all over the place. Does this work for all CNN articles?

Re: Huawei's offices in France raided by financial prosecutors

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Good luck France. Remember what happened to Canada after the Meng Wanzhou situation? Wasn't great. Not saying don't enforce the laws, just... good luck.

I would say that those two Canadians put themselves in danger the moment they entered an authoritarian country.

It is ridiculous to expect that one will get a fair trial in these kinds of countries; law just exists there not to protect the general public, but the dictator himself.

Re: Huawei's offices in France raided by financial prosecutors

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Good luck France. Remember what happened to Canada after the Meng Wanzhou situation? Wasn't great. Not saying don't enforce the laws, just... good luck.

What exactly did happen to Canada? Were they wiped of the map or something?

Yup, you didn't hear? Canada no longer exists. Now y'all are gonna have to consume that inferior Vermont maple syrup.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230509-the-key-issue...

Re: Huawei's offices in France raided by financial prosecutors

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Good luck France. Remember what happened to Canada after the Meng Wanzhou situation? Wasn't great. Not saying don't enforce the laws, just... good luck.

Yeah, China arrested Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, the latter later admitted he was used by Michael Kovrig to pass intelligence information to the Canadian spy agencies. [1] The Canada paid them off to remain silent [2].

[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-spavor-kovrig... [2] https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-ready-pay-sett...

Re: Huawei's offices in France raided by financial prosecutors

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post #11

Good luck France. Remember what happened to Canada after the Meng Wanzhou situation? Wasn't great. Not saying don't enforce the laws, just... good luck.

I would say that those two Canadians put themselves in danger the moment they entered an authoritarian country. It is ridiculous to expect that one will get a fair trial in these kinds of countries; law just exists there not to protect the general public, but the dictator himself.

Turns out being a diplomat isn't quite such a glamorous job, eh?

That aside, the situation with the Michaels is a tiny component of how the China-Canada relationship has chilled. The Canadian government continually comes out and says China basically doesn't answer the phone anymore, and it's not like the trade relationship is strong, and we have Xi scolding Justin Trudeau in front of the press on the sidelines of global events.

My point is, if you wanna play with China, you better be ready to play.

https://www.chinausfocus.com/foreign-policy/meng-wanzhou-and...

Re: Huawei's offices in France raided by financial prosecutors

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Good luck France. Remember what happened to Canada after the Meng Wanzhou situation? Wasn't great. Not saying don't enforce the laws, just... good luck.

Yeah, China arrested Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, the latter later admitted he was used by Michael Kovrig to pass intelligence information to the Canadian spy agencies. [1] The Canada paid them off to remain silent [2]. [1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-spavor-kovrig... [2] https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-ready-pay-sett...

You're using an "alleges" as confirmation?

Re: Huawei's offices in France raided by financial prosecutors

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Just enforcing the law. Happens all the time https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/24/google-of...

Odd to me that for companies like Google the state doesn't believe they can get what they need from simple subpoenas, but rather feel they need to forcibly seize records in person.
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