After being stuck for nearly three years, largely confined to her multi-million-dollar Canadian house in a sought-after neighbourhood in Vancouver, Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou looks set to return home to China.
Under the deal, Meng will be released on personal recognizance bond, and the United States plans to drop its extradition request to Canada, which could pave the way for her to fly back to China.
Shortly after Meng's arrest, China detained two Canadians, sentencing one this month to 11 years in prison for espionage, in a move Canadians assailed as retaliation.The detention of Meng, who takes her family name from her mother and has also used the English first names"Cathy" and"Sabrina," once again threw the spotlight on Huawei at a time of heightened global concerns over electronic security.
Her husband, Liu Xiaozong, and the son and daughter they have together have been able to visit her during the pandemic. Meng has passed the time with oil painting, reading and work, according to an open letter to Huawei employees she wrote on the first anniversary of her arrest. In her first media appearance before the Chinese press in 2013, Meng said she had first joined the company as a secretary"whose job was just to take calls."
Meng is widely seen by Huawei insiders as the likely successor to Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei. Ren, 74, founded the Chinese telecommunications company in 1988 and, like his elder daughter Meng, has largely kept a low profile.
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