Five days after a top executive of Huawei, the Chinese telecoms group, was arrested on a US request in Canada, President Donald Trump said he was willing to intervene — if it helped secure “the largest trade deal ever made”. The detention of Meng Wanzhou, one of China’s best known executives, was undoubtedly an incendiary step, escalating trade tensions with Beijing. But presidential interference in the case would send entirely the wrong message about the US justice system — and about how the administration conducts international affairs.
在加拿大應美國要求逮捕中國電信集團華為(Huawei)首席財務官孟晚舟的消息曝出數天后,美國總統唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)表示,如果有助于達成“有史以來規模最大的貿易協議”,他愿意出手干預。孟晚舟是中國最知名的企業高管之一,她的被捕無疑激起了千層浪,造成中美貿易緊張關系升級。但總統干預此案,將傳遞有關美國司法體系,以及美國政府處理國際事務方式的完全錯誤的信息。