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Richard Ip
Richard Ip
Richard Ip is a partner of Wallbrook, a global intelligence and compliance risk consultancy. He specialises in Asia with a focus on political and economic developments in the region.

OpinionWhat if Huawei CFO’s arrest really was about sanctions?

Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, photographed here at a session of an investment forum in Moscow in October 2014, was detained in Canada on December 1 at the request of the US government. Photo: Reuters

While the popular narrative is that Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was targeted as part of the trade war, the US Department of Justice’s activism may have been par for the course.

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