Did Trump throw Canada under the bus by saying he might intervene in Huawei case?
BEIJING - Did President Donald Trump just throw Canada under the bus?
After days of angry protests from Chinese officials over the arrest in Canada of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou - and explanations from Canadian and U.S. officials that this was not a political stunt, just a matter of legal process - Trump upended the conversation this week when he said that the criminal case against the daughter of one of China's wealthiest tech billionaires could become a bargaining chip in trade war negotiations.
To some, Trump seemed to have handed the Chinese a major propaganda boost by suggesting what Beijing has argued all along - that Meng's arrest was political. Others took his comment as confirmation that Meng was being used as a hostage in the trade talks to exert pressure on China.
Chinese officials have
