BEIJING — China on Thursday formally levelled grave espionage charges against two detained Canadians, raising the prospect of harsh punishment for the men caught in a spiralling three-way feud over Trump administration’s treatment of the technology company Huawei. “Everything in China is done in accordance with law,” Lu, the Chinese government spokesman, told reporters Thursday. The Huawei chief financial officer has since been undergoing extradition proceedings in Canadian court, which is deciding whether to send her to the United States to face bank fraud charges. Last week, a Chinese court scheduled Schellenberg’s appeal hearing to begin hours after Meng faced an extradition hearing of her own in Vancouver. After a Canadian court pushed back a decision in Meng’s case, the Chinese court also announced it would delay announcing whether Schellenberg would be put to death.

Source: National Post May 16, 2019 12:24 UTC