China urges release of Huawei exec with new Canadian envoy

BEIJING -- China urged Canada to "reflect on its mistakes" and immediately release a detained Huawei executive in comments Thursday on the appointment of a new Canadian ambassador to the country. Relations between China and Canada were severely damaged when Meng Wanzhou -- the chief financial officer of Chinese tech giant Huawei and the daughter of its founder -- was arrested at Vancouver's airport last Dec. 1 at the request of the U.S. "At present, China-Canada relations are facing serious diff