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Meng Wanzhou: The PowerPoint that sparked an international row - superadmin - 09-25-2021 When Meng Wanzhou's flight landed in Vancouver on 1 December 2018, she was expecting to make only a brief stopover. But after almost a three-year prolonged stay, the chief financial officer of Huawei and daughter of the telecoms giant's founder is now a free woman. On Friday, prosecutors announced that a request to extradite her to the US had been dropped. During the three years of intense legal battles, Canada was caught in the escalating tension between Washington and Beijing. At the centre of the story is a sixteen-page corporate PowerPoint presentation. Vancouver stopover and an arrest When her plane from Hong Kong landed, Meng Wanzhou planned to go to a house she owned in the Canadian city to collect some luggage before catching another flight to Mexico for a corporate meeting. - More - |