Xi Jinping urges the United States to resolve the Meng Wanzhou incident during the September call with Biden and FM

Photo by Meng Wanzhou at Shenzhen Baoan International Airport: VCG

The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Tuesday that Chinese President Xi Jinping urged the United States to resolve the Huawei Meng Wanzhou incident during a telephone conversation with US President Joe Biden earlier this month.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said at a regular press conference on Tuesday that President Xi made clear efforts on the Meng Wanzhou incident, clarified China’s position, and urged the US to properly resolve the incident as soon as possible. Questions about the case.

Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei, was illegally detained in Canada for nearly three years at the request of the US government, and arrived in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on a chartered plane organized by the Chinese government on Saturday night.

Since Meng’s unprovoked detention in early December 2018, Xi Jinping has personally paid attention to the case. The Chinese government has provided consular protection and assistance to Meng at multiple levels and on multiple occasions, and lodged solemn representations with the United States and Canada, requesting the cancellation of Meng Wanzhou’s mistakes. Allegations to ensure that she returns home safely as soon as possible.

In addition, during the recent Sino-US talks in Tianjin, China also proposed to the US a list of mistakes that the US side should correct and a list of individual cases that China is concerned about. The Chinese official said that through the list, the United States was asked to drop the charges against Meng and let her return to China.

Huawei’s Meng reached a landmark agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday to allow her to return to China, according to which senior executives of the Chinese company did not plead guilty. Some experts said that although this controversial case has become a political dilemma affecting global geopolitics, the incident will help pave the way for positive interactions between the two largest economies in the world in the future.

Hua Chunying said that due to the US’s policy toward China for a period of time, there have been more’nails’ in Sino-US relations. “

We hope that the US will attach great importance to it, act according to the list with practical actions, meet China halfway, and push the relations between the two countries back on track in accordance with the spirit of the call between the two heads of state.