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    Did Trump throw Canada under the bus by saying he might intervene in Huawei case?

    by Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times Dec 12, 2018 5 minutes

    BEIJING - Did President Donald Trump just throw Canada under the bus?

    After days of angry protests from Chinese officials over the arrest in Canada of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou - and explanations from Canadian and U.S. officials that this was not a political stunt, just a matter of legal process - Trump upended the conversation this week when he said that the criminal case against the daughter of one of China's wealthiest tech billionaires could become a bargaining chip in trade war negotiations.

    To some, Trump seemed to have handed the Chinese a major propaganda boost by suggesting what Beijing has argued all along - that Meng's arrest was political. Others took his comment as confirmation that Meng was being used as a hostage in the trade talks to exert pressure on China.

    Chinese officials have

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