wow what a day i woke up early this morning to the news that the cfo of huawei [ __ ] and
joe has reached a deal with the u.s department of justice to allow her to be free and come back home
and she left canada on a plane late this afternoon canadian time it's about 4 30
and she's due to touch down in shenzhen bohan airport at about 9 30 this evening shenzhen time
and maybe by the time you're watching this video she will have already landed and be back home in
shenzhen and then a little later news came that michael spaver and michael korvig who are two
canadian citizens that were arrested and sentenced for spying in china they have also been released
and they are both also on a plane back to canada and in this video i'm going to break down all
the events of today so stay tuned right welcome back to the barrett channel and welcome to this
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this video now as i said at the start of this video mangwen joe who is the cfo of huawei has
reached a deal with the us justice department to be released now back in december 2020
she was also offered a deal by the us justice department and that was a plea deal and that was
rejected by uh both when joe and her sort of team of of lawyers because they believed um that she
was innocent and the evidence in the court that was presented sort of pretty much beyond doubt
prove that she was innocent of any wrongdoing however today's deal is very very different
so the events of the day started by miss mung appearing by video link in the new york court to
testify in in her case and the judge swore her in she she said she would tell the truth and
nothing but the truth and then the proceedings started firstly the charges are read out now
those charges are of conspiracy to commit um bank fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud then
miss mung had the opportunity to enter her plea and she pleaded not guilty it's very important to
understand the plea was not guilty she was not guilty of committing any wrongdoing whatsoever
then the judge indicated and said that the u.s department of justice had reached a deal now that
deal was a dpa and a dpa is a deferred prosecution agreement so what is a deferred prosecution
agreement well it's an agreement that allows this man to plead not guilty and the charges the
prosecution is deferred and then this particular case is deferred from december the 1st 2018
until december the 1st 2022 so four years and basically what that means is during that time
if ms hmong agrees to the conditions of the dpa on december the 1st or december the 2nd
2022 all charges against it will be dropped as far of what the details of the dpa are
i don't know because um as part of the agreement um those details have not been made public
and also miss mong is forbidden to speak about them until after the 1st of december 2022 and i
suspect at that time that the most of the public and the news cycle will have forgotten about the
case or moved on so just to clarify miss mung is pleaded not guilty and that not guilty plea
has been accepted by the u.s department of justice then after miss manga signed the dpa agreement the
u.s authorities contacted the canadian authorities and told them to formally withdraw the extradition
request for her extradition to the usa there was then another court hearing in the canadian court
and shortly after that miss mung was released and the ankle bracelet that she'd been wearing during
the whole time of her house arrest in canada was removed and she went directly to vancouver airport
to board an air china flight back to shenzhen that flight left canada at 1627 local time
and is on route to boan international airport shenzhen and is expected to land at about 9 30
this evening china time and as i said at the beginning of the video there's a good chance
that by the time you're watching this video she will already be back on chinese soil here in
shenzhen now i really think this is good news for all parties involved china the us and the canada
now although it was obvious from all the evidence that was presented during the extradition case
that miss mong was absolutely innocent you know especially the latest um information that came
about hsbc knew all about the relationship between huawei skycom and everything it still was a
possibility that she would have faced extradition to the us and generally how how slow legal systems
move that it's possible she could have been in the us for up to five years now that would have
not been good for the relationship between china and the us for sure so i think it's very important
that we've reached this deal today now she was arrested initially under the trump administration
and i think actually the biden administration didn't really want to continue with this scenario
so i think it was you know very much in their interest to to open negotiations with china
to actually get this situation resolved so i would imagine there was a lot of phone calls between
you know high level diplomats from from china and canada and the us in order to come to a
suitable resolution to this case and i also believe that the chinese government worked
very hard behind the scenes to to secure the release of of miss monk and this is one of their
main sticking points in in furthering negotiations um with the usa and it's kind of like you know
unless we can find a solution to uh release miss mung then unfortunately we can't move forward with
other negotiations so i really hope that um today's deal has opened the way for for those
negotiations to move forward and make progress between china and the usa and with regards to
the chinese government um working hard during during the flight on the way back um miss mung
wrote an article that really thanked the chinese government and acknowledged all the hard work
that they put in to secure her release she also thanked all her friends her family her colleagues
and all the people of china for supporting her and giving her sort of drive and positivity throughout
the whole time of of this case has been going on over the last more than three years so just to say
i think today's decision is a win for both the usa and china so for china man gwen joe has pleaded
not guilty and she's on her way home to china so that's a win for china and for the usa it's
removed the roadblock that was preventing further negotiations and discussions on the overall trade
issue with china so i'm really hopeful that what happened today is the start of a new chapter and
the usa and china can move forward and sort of resolve even more of their differences and
you know just just basically move forward and and more cooperation obviously if the us and china can
cooperate it pretty much benefits everyone else around the world because when we have a situation
where china and the us are not cooperating it's really not good for sort of the rest of the world
you know everybody loses not just the usa and china as i mentioned also at the beginning the
other good news today is that both michael spaver and michael korvig have been released by the
chinese authorities and they're also on the way back home to canada as we speak now i'm not
personally very familiar with the case of the two michaels however i do find it hard to imagine that
the chinese authorities would just pick random um canadian citizens off the street and arrest them
so i feel there must have been a reason other than nangunjo that they were arrested in the
first place but saying that i do think they probably would have been dealt with differently
if it wasn't for manguendo being arrested by the canadian authorities on behalf of
the usa however it's good news that they are also both on their way back to canada and i'm
pretty sure their families and their relatives and friends will be very very happy to see them too
just as miss mong's family relatives and friends will be very very happy to see her back in china
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