“She basically bought her way out of the U.S. criminal justice system, even though she admitted to committing all the egregious conduct in the indictment,” says Kash Patel.

Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou was recently given a deferred prosecution agreement and allowed to return to China. And almost immediately after, the “two Michaels” imprisoned in China—Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor—were released on bail for “medical reasons.”

And lesser-known are two American siblings—blocked from leaving China since 2018—who were also recently allowed to return to the United States.

In this episode of Kash’s Corner, we discuss what many are describing as “hostage diplomacy.”

What exactly was Huawei doing in Iran in the first place, and how is Huawei part of the Chinese Communist Party’s broader ambitions to control key infrastructure nodes around the globe?