Wait, why did Canada arrest a Chinese CFO?
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🗓️ 7 December 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This past Saturday, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met up for dinner in Argentina. |
| 0:15.1 | The relationship is very special, the relationship that I have with President Xi. |
| 0:20.1 | Everyone have a nice, friendly time. |
| 0:22.9 | I think that is going to be a very primary reason why we'll probably end up ending up |
| 0:27.5 | getting something that will be good for China and good for the United States. |
| 0:32.7 | That whole trade war seemed like it might be coming to an end. |
| 0:36.4 | Tonight, trade truths. |
| 0:38.3 | President Trump, back from Argentina, reached the temporary breakthrough at Saturdays |
| 0:43.1 | two and a half hour dinner in Buenos Aires with Chinese President Xi Jinping. |
| 0:55.6 | Meanwhile, in Canada, Canadian authorities arrested Chinese telecom executive Meng |
| 1:01.0 | Wangzhou, while she changed planes at Vancouver Airport. |
| 1:04.5 | The chief financial officer of Huawei, one of the biggest companies in China, was arrested |
| 1:11.3 | and guess who asked for her arrest. |
| 1:13.9 | The Trump administration's Justice Department requested the arrest and extradition to the |
| 1:18.6 | US, action typically reserved for drug lords and arms dealers, not corporate executives. |
| 1:28.1 | So much for a nice, friendly time. |
| 1:35.6 | Alex Ward, you're one of the hosts of the Worldly Podcast. |
| 1:38.0 | Would you agree that there was a second there, like this past week, where it seemed like |
| 1:41.2 | the US and China might actually have a cooling moment in their relationship? |
| 1:45.9 | Meh. |
| 1:46.9 | Well, trade truths. |
| 1:48.9 | But now it looks like they're definitely going to get worse. |
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