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Image copyrightReutersImage caption Meng Wanzhou has said she will contest allegations of fraud Donald Trump says he could intervene in the case of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou if it helps to avoid a further decline in US relations with China."Whatever's good for this country, I would do," the US president said.Ms Meng, the chief financial officer of the Chinese telecoms giant, was granted bail on Tuesday by a Canadian court.She was arrested on 1 December and could be extradited to the US to face fraud charges linked to the alleged violation of sanctions on Iran.Ms Meng, 46, denies any wrongdoing and has said she will contest the allegations.

She is the daughter of Huawei's founder and her detention, which comes amid an increasingly acrimonious trade dispute between Washington and Beijing, has angered China and soured its relations with both Canada and the US.In an interview with Reuters news agency on Tuesday, Mr Trump said he would intervene in the US Justice Department's case against Ms Meng if it would serve national security interests or help achieve a trade deal with China."If I think it's good for what will be certainly the largest trade deal ever made - which is a very important thing - what's good for national security, I would certainly intervene if I thought it was necessary," he said.

What happened in the courtroomJustice William Ehrcke in Vancouver set bail for Ms Meng at C$10m (£6m; $7.4m).Of that, C$7m must be provided in cash with C$3m in collateral.

The judge said that she would be under surveillance 24 hours a day and must wear an electronic ankle tag.

She will be unable to go out between 2300 and 0600 and must surrender all passports and travel documents.In the three-day bail hearing in Vancouver, Ms Meng's lawyers sought to provide guarantees that she would not pose a flight risk if released.

The application was opposed by Canadian prosecutors.Image copyrightAFPImage caption Supporters of Ms Meng gathered outside the court in Vancouver US prosecutors say Ms Meng used a Huawei subsidiary called Skycom to evade sanctions on Iran between 2009 and 2014.

They allege she had publicly misrepresented Skycom as being a separate company from Huawei.

It is also alleged she deceived banks about the true relationship between the two companies.Applause broke out in the courtroom when Justice Ehrcke granted bail.

Ms Meng cried and hugged her lawyers.The judge ordered her to reappear in court on 6 February.After the ruling, Huawei issued a statement, saying: "We have every confidence that the Canadian and US legal systems will reach a just conclusion."How has China reacted to Ms Meng's arrestChina, which insists that Ms Meng has not violated any laws, had threatened severe consequences unless Canada released the Huawei executive.Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng earlier summoned both the US and Canadian ambassadors and lodged a "strong protest" urging her release.The ministry described Ms Meng's arrest as "extremely nasty".Image copyrightEPAImage caption Ms Meng is chief financial officer of Huawei, the world's second-biggest smartphone maker Separately on Tuesday, it emerged that a Canadian former diplomat had been detained in China.Michael Kovrig's current employer, the International Crisis Group, said it was working for his prompt release.

There has been no official word from China about his whereabouts.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada was in direct contact with Chinese authorities concerning the case.Mr Kovrig previously worked as a diplomat in Beijing, Hong Kong and at the UN in New York.Canadian officials said there was no "explicit indication" of any link between Mr Kovrig's reported detention and the arrest of Ms Meng.Who is Meng WanzhouMeng Wanzhou joined Huawei as early as 1993, when she began a career at her father's company as a receptionist.After she graduated with a master's degree in accountancy from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1999, she joined the finance department of Huawei.She became the company's chief finance officer in 2011 and was promoted to vice-chair a few months before her arrest.Ms Meng's links to her father, Ren Zhengfei, were not public knowledge until a few years ago.In a practice highly unusual in Chinese tradition, she adopted her family name not from her father but her mother, Meng Jun, who was Mr Ren's first wife.





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