Huawei' CFO was released with "time served."

No, there was no trial. That is because the chance of Meng Wanzhou, getting more prison time after conviction of fraud is not likely. She was jailed in Canada in 2018. She would not have gotten that much more time in prison even after a trial.

Basically, it came down to does the USA continues to treat the Chinese CFO as someone that needs to stand trial or do we get the Canadians back home.

Why do business with China? There is no mutual respect. This sort of hostage diplomacy is common with communist countries. Russia does it, too. They will pick up Americans off the street for their own purposes.

Trevor Reed, (click here) who was detained in 2019 and accused of assaulting police officers, at a court hearing in Moscow.

Trevor Reed is a former USA Marine and was accused of assaulting a police officer in Russia. Really? 
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September 25, 2021
By Amanda Colletta

Toronto - Two Canadian men imprisoned in China for 1,020 days (click here) in what Western officials have decried as a blatant display of “hostage diplomacy” landed in Canada early Saturday.

The two men, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor — known as the “two Michaels” — could be seen disembarking in the dark from a passenger plane in Calgary, hours after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday that the pair were on their way home “after an unbelievably difficult ordeal.” He met them on the tarmac.

Spavor flashed a thumbs up and gave a wave to reporters as he left the airport. Kovrig continued on to Toronto to meet his family.

“It is overwhelming. I find myself at a loss for words because the moment is so, so incredible,” Vina Nadjibulla, Kovrig’s wife, told reporters as she headed into Pearson International Airport to meet him. “It’s finally here. After 1,020 days, it is finally here.”...

Both China and Russia are communist countries and they are bad actors on the world stage. This is just one example. They pick up innocent Americans and jail them because they can make up stories like, "They were spying." Mr. Whelan is a former Marine as well and went to Russia at the insistance of a friend for a wedding there and he gets picked up as an intelligence officer. 

Paul Whelan, (click here) a US citizen who has been detained in Russia for more than two years, is sick and has struggled to reach the US Embassy, his brother said Wednesday.

"Paul has been able to speak to our parents by phone," David Whelan said in a statement. "Paul is sick - he's indicated he has a 102F temperature and that prisoners are sharing around any over-the-counter medications they can spare. Paul also said he was receiving antibiotics, although if he has the cold virus he thinks he has, it's not clear why the prison medical staff would prescribe them."...

The facts are ridiculous. Both of these men are former Marines and interrogated for information about the USA. These men were in Russia because they believed Russia was not an issue in any way and they could conduct themselves without any danger to themselves. Well, guess what? If you are a military ANYONE in Russia you are a target. GOT THAT. 

A TARGET!

The USA Justice Department did a great job in securing the release of Canadian prisoners in China that were taken for hostages. The Huawei CFO was jailed for about the length of time she would have recieved once a trial was held.