Let's start a war with China? — Canada, under American direction — provocatively arrested Huawei's Meng Wanzhou for no good reason

07 December 2018

In international affairs . . .

. . . there is "skillfully subtle" versus "dramatically dumb".

The 21^st Century has become the era in which Imbecile America perches high atop its forecast gravestone.

Notably, this week — of 07 December no less

This Lamestream report arrived with not even a raised eyebrow:

[Meng Wanzhou] The chief financial officer of Chinese tech giant Huawei [see here] has been arrested in Canada.

She faces extradition to the United States.

The US Justice Department sought the arrest as part of ongoing investigation, according to a law enforcement official.

Huawei said she faces unspecified charges in the Eastern District of New York. The Wall Street Journal reported in April that the US Justice Department was investigating whether Huawei violated US sanctions on Iran.

The US Justice Department declined to comment.

The Trump administration launched an extraordinary campaign, urging America's allies to stop using Huawei telecommunications equipment because the Chinese company poses a security threat, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Over the past several weeks, New Zealand and Australia have prevented telecommunications companies from using Huawei equipment for their 5G mobile networks.

The Chinese press put it less evasively:

Meng, the daughter of founder Ren Zhengfei of Huawei, the second largest smartphone maker in the world after Samsung, was arrested on Saturday by police in Vancouver, Canada, at the request of the US government on suspicion of violating US sanctions against Iran.

Huh?

The Trump Administration has:

caused the arrest of a powerful Chinese business executive

on charges that the United States apparently declines to reveal

for — what we can reasonably safely infer are — non-crimes

that would, under most legal scenarios, not be ours to punish even if they were

in a foreign legal jurisdiction not ours to rule over

and

in a provocatively splashy way that will certainly arouse

memories of colonial domination —

within the arrested executive's 1.4 plus billion person,

militarily capable

and

economically dominant homeland.

Can American leadership become any more clumsily eye-poking and strategically clueless than this?

Philip Giraldi capably summarized the current state of affairs (even months before this latest phallus-flaunting took place):

The [against] Chinese sanctions are serious business as they forbid conducting any transactions that go through the U.S. financial system.

If foreign banks attempt to collaborate with China to evade the restrictions, they too will be sanctioned.

[I]f you’re paying attention . . . you are probably digging a new bomb shelter right now.

We have told Iran that it cannot send its soldiers and “proxies” outside its own borders while Syria cannot have advanced missiles to defend its airspace, which Russia is “on notice” for providing.

China also cannot buy weapons from Russia while Venezuela is also being threatened because it has what is generally believed to be a terrible government.

Meanwhile, America is in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan to stay while nearly all agree a war with Iran is coming soon.

Everyone is the enemy and everyone hates the United States, mostly for good reasons.

If this is Making America Great Again, I think I would settle for just making America “good” so we could possibly have that doomsday clock go back a couple of minutes.

The moral? — American leadership is talented at flaunting uselessly destructive imbecility

We can revel in USA (times three) pride. Just before most of us burn in a probably inevitable, eventual cascade of nukes.

And you thought Hitler was ultimately inept.

PeteFree.com

Let's start a war with China? — Canada, under American direction — provocatively arrested Huawei's Meng Wanzhou for no good reason