Direct Sources of Tension that Led to Cathy Meng Wanzhou Incident
On the twenty-second of august in twenty thirteen, Cathy Meng held a meeting in Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, and she used PowerPoint. She somehow had implicated herself unknowingly, and the PowerPoint was used against her. Reports emerged claiming a possible breach of trade sanctions on Iran by SkyCom blesses by Cathy Meng. Another issue further popped on if the equipment seller at SkyCom had any form of partnership with the Huawei company. To be in a position to cover activities in Iran (Mascitelli & Chung, 2019). For using PowerPoint, Cathy was accused of misleading the Hong Kong bank over the relationship between the two countries. She had omitted critical information in some slides, putting the bank at risk of violating the penalty against Iran.
Secondly, the arrest of Meng Wanzhou revolved around political causes. The sentiments of Donald Trump, the president of the United States, indicated do negotiations with china by using Meng’s case as a bargaining chip (Greitens et al., 2019). A clear illustration of violence, according to her lawyers, was how she was treated after arrest. There was push and pull on documents China wanted to be signed on the Canadian Securities intelligence service. The aim was to ascertain the United States government’s role in the Meng Wanzhou’s arrest saga. Moreover, the trusted judge turned down the request on the documents. However, the case has been prolonged for more than ten years, and a decision is yet to be made on whether she should be transferred to the United States.
Finally, the case of Cathy Meng has featured geopolitical repercussions. The case had been dragged far and wide. The arrest of such a prominent business figure agitated China, and they felt taken advantage of by the United States government. The bank was also investigated because it had participated in piling the case against Miss Meng but maintained it only did as per the law’s requirement (McBurney, 2014). Questions have been raised in the border relations between the two countries and how easy it is for one country can take advantage of the other for personal gains. However, the focus is on what the government of China is doing to prevent the other potential business people from being used as bargaining chips by its competitors.