HONG KONG—Like many top Chinese executives, Meng Wanzhou is a mysterious figure even in her home country, but the 46-year-old chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies had been widely tipped to one day take the helm of the tech giant her father founded.
That was until her shock arrest in Canada at the request of U.S. authorities on Dec. 1, a move that has entangled her in the protracted diplomatic tensions between Washington and Beijing. Her fate is now uncertain.
