Accused Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou is home free — free to leave her $14 million second home in Vancouver for her Chinese homeland. At long last, so are Canada’s “two Michaels,” Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, after nearly three years in detention. The judicial deal allows everyone to save face — China, America and Canada — and it saved the skins of the two Michaels, whose innocence was always indisputable. The high stakes triangulation between two ferocious superpowers and one fledgling middle power — Canada was caught in the middle — finally reached the end game. And yet with the surprise release of the Canadians after Meng was freed, China did not even try to conceal the direct linkage between her and the two Michaels.

Source: thestar September 25, 2021 00:01 UTC