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0 pointsmorelisp5y ago0 comments

Wanzhou was not "pulled off her private jet"; she was detained after Canadian customs processing for something that was a crime in both the US and Canada.

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FpUser5y ago· 2 in thread

Gary Botting, Canada's leading expert on extraditions disagrees with that "crime in Canada" part. Reading "Legal Commentary" section of Wikipedia's article about Wanzhou leaves the impression that Canada had decided to play poodle for whatever reasons. Trump's comment about the case and the way the US had acted in similar matter with Ericsson also leaves impression that the case is largely of political nature.

morelispOP5y ago

I mostly agree with you; I just don't agree it can be characterized as "pulled off her private jet" nor that the case has anything in common with diverting a commercial passenger jet via a fake bomb threat to arrest a journalist.

FpUser5y ago

I did not characterize it as her being "pulled off her private jet" and never said it has any relation to a fake bomb threat. I was replying strictly to someone's point about why she was arrested at all.

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