Meng Wanzhou, Chief Financial Officer of Huawei Technologies, returned to China on September 24 after being illegally detained by Canada in December 2018, at the request of the U.S. on grounds of wire fraud. The accusation was never substantiated with solid evidence.
Meng's unlawful detention was primarily viewed as an American attempt to trip up Chinese hi-tech companies and hold back China's overall development. Many considered her regained freedom an easing of the Sino-American trade tensions first ignited during the Donald Trump presidency.