davina gupta reporting. meng wa nzhou, top priority. davina gupta reporting. financial officer of huawei will appear ina financial officer of huawei will appear in a canadian court, at the same time as the giant will begin a lawsuit against the us government. we spoke last month with huawei's chairman's father, who deny the allegations. what did he tell you about the relationship with the chinese government? i'm picking that relationship for any chinese company is very tricky, but mr ren speaking to me last month was categorical. huawei hasn't got where it is today because of any undue influence or favours from the chinese communist party but there has been criticism raised about how close these entities are when you look at the retaliation that china has gone out around the world defending huawei and also the detention and arrest of the two canadians very much being seen as beijing's way of retaliating for what the united states and canada have done to huawei. listen to what mr ren said to me when i put to what mr ren said to me when i put to him how strident

for the latest, let's cross over to delhi and the bbc‘s business correspondent davina gupta.e countermeasures from india? well, rico, i'vejust heard that well, rico, i've just heard that the indian ministry will organise a news conference two hours from now, highly unusual move for the indian commerce minister to address the media here, just in the morning around nine o'clock local time, so we will see what countermeasures india is preparing for. however, the country has been in negotiations with the us for about a year to delay the gsp products to be revoked, so they are about 1900 products including textiles, jewellery and as you pointed out the impact would be taking the head of about $5.6 billion in export that india wants to point to the us that this could risk a trade war. it is an election year, can prime minister modi afford the risk of a trade war? absolutely not, rico, because the prime minister is in a corner over the sagging economy in india. he has been under pressure to revive export in india. india has been one of the major beneficiaries of this scheme in the u