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Huawei exec back in court as China dispute escalates

As Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou returns to court, CBC Vancouver’s Jason Proctor on the repercussions from her arrest in December.
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Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, centre, is accompanied by a private security detail as she leaves her home to attend a court appearance in Vancouver on March 6, 2019. Meng is out on bail and remains under partial house arrest after she was detained Dec. 1 at the behest of American authorities. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press)

Since Meng Wanzhou's arrest last December at the Vancouver airport, there have been a lot of developments in Canada's relationship with China. Two Canadian citizens are being detained in China, two more are facing the death penalty for alleged drug-smuggling charges, and a trade war has developed involving the export of Canadian canola products. Many link these developments to the arrest of Meng, and the American request that she be extradited for allegedly violating economic sanctions against Iran.

The CBC's Jason Proctor has looked deeply into this story for the podcast "Sanctioned," and brings us updates as Meng Wanzhou faces the B.C. Supreme Court this week as part of her extradition hearings.

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