What's going on with Huawei?
Then on 1 December, the company's chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, was arrested in Canada. At a court hearing in Vancouver on 7 December it was revealed that she was wanted in the US on fraud charges relating to the alleged breaking of US sanctions on Iran.It has also been reported that Japan's government will stop buying equipment from Huawei, and rival Chinese manufacturer ZTE.What are countries worried about?There are fears that China is using Huawei as a proxy so it can spy on rival nations and scoop up useful information. Huawei has said it is independent and gives nothing to the country's government, apart from relevant taxes.Critics question how free any major Chinese business can be from Beijing's influence. They point out that its media-shy founder, Ren Zhengfei, was a form…