PoliticoJohn Bolton book could factor into Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou’s extradition case

Name: Trump ‘pleaded’ for China to help him get re-elected, writes former US adviser Bolton in new book
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Ex-national security adviser wrote that Donald Trump linked case to potential US-China trade deal, which could boost defence’s claims of political involvement

Meng’s case has wedged Canada into wider clash between Beijing and Washington

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Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou leaves her home to attend a case management conference in Vancouver in January. Photo: Reuters

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Published: 2:30am, 23 Jun 2020Updated: 5:54am, 25 Dec 2021

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Andy Blatchford on politico.com on June 22, 2020.

Allegations about President Donald Trump in a new book by former White House official John Bolton could be a factor in Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou’s fight to avoid extradition from Canada to the United States.

Passages from the book penned by Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser, are likely to be explored as a way to boost arguments of political involvement in the case of the Chinese telecoms giant’s chief financial officer, according to legal experts and a source familiar with her defence.

Of particular interest are moments in which Bolton says Trump linked the case to a potential US trade deal with China.

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Trump ‘pleaded’ for China to help him get re-elected, writes former US adviser Bolton in new book

Bolton writes in the book that Trump viewed concerns raised by his advisers about Huawei and the ZTE telecoms firm being national security threats as “an opportunity to make personal gestures to” Chinese President Xi Jinping.