is NOT the US. The US is too powerful to be intimidated. The intended targets are other US allies who would toe the US line or who would want to suck up to the US. This is meant to clearly demonstrate what would happen if anyone else is contemplating to kidnap Chinese citizens at the US request. For that reason and the seriousness of the Chinese resolve, China will NOT budge unless Canada let Meng go or the US drops the extradition request. Nothing Canada can do would alter the course of the event. For a professor, he has very limited intellectual capacity.