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Have pity on Meng Wanzhou. Pray that the heiress to Chinese tech giant Huawei can withstand the hardship of living in a luxurious mansion while her high-priced legal team fights her extradition to the United States.

In case you haven’t heard, Ms. Meng, arrested a year ago as she passed through Vancouver on an extradition request from the Americans, posted a bizarre open letter of the hardship she has faced over the last year. I don’t doubt that facing the prospect of being tried for conspiracy and fraud charges in the United States can be stressful, but Meng was nothing if not tone deaf in her post.

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“Right now, time seems to pass slowly,” Meng posted. “It is so slow that I have enough time to read a book from cover to cover. I can take the time to discuss minutiae with my colleagues or to carefully complete an oil painting.”

That poor, poor woman.

The Huawei princess must be hurting so badly.

Of course, while Meng wastes away in a $4.2-million mansion and is able to roam around Vancouver and the surrounding area to shop or dine at restaurants, two Canadians face much worse conditions. Just days after Meng’s detention on Dec. 1, 2018, China detained Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor.