the past u.s. lawmakers have described the company as a threat to national security saying its technology could be used for spying other countries like australia and new zealand share those concerns and have found twelve ways equipment from being used in their high speed five g. mobile networks. way has repeatedly denied those claims when news of meng's arrest broke china's embassy in canada have released a statement saying is firmly opposes i'm strongly protest the move. the arrest comes at an especially sensitive time in u.s. chinese trade relations last weekend the country's leaders agreed to a ninety day truce in their months long trade dispute the u.s. decision to target one of china's most important tech giants is only likely to reignite tensions. let's get the very latest on the story now and bring in d.-w. asia business correspondent linda hong joining us from singapore linda what's