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Probe arose out of civil lawsuits alleging Huawei stole technology from U.S. companies.

The Dalian Intermediate People’s Court in China’s Liaoning Province sentenced Canadian Robert Lloyd Schellenberg to death on Monday. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau immediately condemned the sentence as “arbitrary” and said the Schellenberg case is “of extreme concern to us as a government.” Many observers speculated the swift and severe judgment is related to China’s ongoing dispute with Canada over the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.

China’s ambassador to Canada, Lu Shaye, accused Canada of “Western egotism and white supremacy” in a Wednesday op-ed denouncing the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.

Reuters reported Wednesday on extensive documentation linking front companies in Iran and Syria with Chinese telecom giant Huawei, whose chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou is currently in Canadian custody and may face extradition to the United States.

Canada’s government revealed on Thursday that China has detained 13 of its citizens since the arrest in Vancouver of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou last month. Chinese officials subsequently released at least eight of those Canadians.

The U.S. State Department recommended “increased caution” on Thursday for Americans traveling to China. It warned about “arbitrary enforcement of local laws as well as special restrictions on dual U.S.-Chinese nationals” and the use of “exit bans” to effectively kidnap U.S. citizens.

China’s state-run Global Times announced on Thursday the indictment of Canadian citizen Robert Lloyd Schellenberg for alleged drug smuggling. His punishment could range from 15 years in prison to the death penalty if he is convicted on Saturday.

The Canadian government said on Wednesday that police have detained a third Canadian citizen in China. While Ottawa provided no details of the arrest, an official said there is “no reason to believe that this case is linked” to the detentions of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor – whose arrests last week were in turn clearly linked to Canada’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.

On Tuesday, China’s state-run Global Times accused the United States of “mobilizing its allies” to “strangle” Huawei, a nefarious campaign in which the “unfair persecution” of Meng is only one element.

The Chinese government has said little about its reasons for arresting Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor this week, but on Thursday, the state-run Global Times published an editorial explicitly framing the arrests as revenge for Canada’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.

The suicide of Chinese-American physics professor Shoucheng Zhang, who dabbled in technology investment outside of his position at Stanford, has raised concerns this week after an anti-Chinese regime publication revealed his ties to the Chinese tech giant Huawei.

China has apparently arrested another Canadian, just a few days after detaining analyst and former diplomat Michael Kovrig. The second detainee is Michael Spavor, a businessman with ties to North Korea who helped arrange meetings between dictator Kim Jong-un and former basketball star Dennis Rodman.

Former Congressman Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) told Breitbart News that China uses technology and finance as tools to globally project its communist ideology.

Contents: China jails Canadian journalist Michael Kovrig in apparent retaliation for Canada arrest of Meng Wanzhou; US State Dept considers stronger travel warning for China; How Michael Kovrig infuriates the Chinese; Canada releases Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou on bail

Michael Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat who currently works for the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, has reportedly been detained in China while working on a research project pertaining to North Korea.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A jailed Chinese technology executive will have to wait at least one more day to see if she will be released on bail in a case that has raised US-China tensions and complicated efforts to resolve a trade dispute that has roiled financial markets and threatened global economic growth.

Over the weekend, a group of unidentified burglars broke into the home of the arrested Huawei executive. Police have not arrested any suspects.

Lawyers for the Chinese telecom executive argued Monday that she wouldn’t be a flight risk because jumping bail would embarrass China.

The top U.S. trade negotiator took a hardline on Sunday, saying that if a deal is not reached by March, China tariffs will rise to 25 percent.

Contents: Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou faces possible 30 year jail term; Japan blocks Huawei products from public infrastructure projects; The story of Stern Hu, an employee of Australian mining company Rio Tinto; Arrest of Meng Wanzhou of China’s Huawei has increasingly serious implications

Fmr. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper called on the West to to keep Chinese telecommunications company Huawei out of 5G networks.

Contents: Canada arrests the chief financial officer of China powerhouse Huawei; China reacts with fury at the arrest of Meng; English-speaking ‘Five Eyes’ countries are banning Huawei products

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Trish Regan Primetime,” President Trump’s Assistant for Trade and Manufacturing Policy, Peter Navarro, stated that neither President Trump nor National Security Adviser John Bolton were aware of the arrest of Huawei CFO