Kidnapping of Meng due to US worries that it is in decline

Editor's note: The detention of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial officer, by Canada at the behest of the United States is a political kidnap, comments Shen Yi, a researcher of politics at Shanghai-based Fudan University, in a post published by Guancha.cn. Excerpts:

Obviously, Washington intended to use Meng as a weight to gain an upper hand in the 90-day trade negotiations with China.

Facing a rising China, the anxiety of Washington is understandable. Otherwise, it would not have risked everyone's condemnation to ask Canada to hold Meng for ransom, a dirty trick.