The United States Senate has passed a resolution praising the Canadian government for the way it has conducted itself in the case of Huawei Technologies chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou. The resolution is nonbinding and is considered an expression of the Senate's will on the issue. Canada has face widespread political and economic pressure from China since Meng's arrest in December and has been looking to its international allies for diplomatic assistance. In February, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland met with U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Chair Jim Risch, a Republican from Idaho, to ask for American help in its ongoing tussle with China over Meng's arrest. One month after Kovrig and Spavor were arrested, China sentenced Canadian Robert Lloyd Schellenberg to death in a sudden retrial in January.

Source: CBC News May 08, 2019 20:57 UTC