Gordon Corera from bbc said that The Chinese telecoms giant Huawei is taking the bank HSBC to court in the UK as part of its attempt to prevent the extradition of its chief financial officer from Canada to the US.Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada on a US request over claims she misled HSBC in a 2013 meeting.
Huawei now hopes to gain access to HSBC documents that could help it undermine the US case for her extradition.The bank told the BBC the application for disclosure was “without merit”.The move comes amid political pressure on HSBC, which is UK based but was founded in Hong Kong where it makes much of its profits.
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