Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver

Re:Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial offic... by jacquesm on Thursday December 06, 2018 @03:27AM (#18616300)

Then the US should change their procedures: first get the treaty ratified then get their head-of-state to go and sign the treaty. Otherwise, in the eyes of the rest of the world the treaty has been signed and the US is bound by it, whatever their internal politics. Optics matter. The way it looks now because of this - and many other recent examples - that the US is not trustworthy.

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Re:Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial offic... by Kalium on Thursday December 06, 2018 @10:57AM (#18619084)

A non-trivial number of countries have separate signing and ratification procedures. This is common enough that no reasonable observer in international politics automatically equates the two. Most of them have procedures that mirror those of the US!

It's worth considering that changing this process from one widely understood to one widely not understood is likely to lead to more confusion about weird internal political processes rather than less.

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