This case is likely gonna take another 5-10 years. I think the US maybe using the fact that she will be stuck in the us / canada to try to get her to plea to something for path 1. Unless a person was bleeding-anti-china out of their eyes, the case seems very wrong for Meng. Even in the unlikelyhood of a conviction and a very short jail term( the judge isn't likely gonna give much considering a person has been under house arrest for potentially a decade), China will win on the propaganda front and the us has more to lose in the view of it's impartial justice system.
I hate to say this but it might be in the long term interest of both Huawei and China that Meng gets "sacrificed"...
CIA targeted Mao's son for extermination back in the Korean war but in the end got Deng's "bid your time", "whatever cat" stuff... which in retrospect was a tactical win but strategic mistake on the part of the US to strike Mao's son
Likewise, it is also true that Meng is just a pawn in the grand scheme of the geopolitical chess/Go board...
China cannot really do a seals team six extraction of her, (and not because its technically impossible but if China did this her career would be over anyway and Huawei reputation even more down the tubes if that was still possible) but China can easily send someone to get to Meng to solve the problem and still maintain plausible deniability or even turn it around and blame it on CIA/Canada for assassinating her etc (not unlike how the US did with COVID by blaming its CIA biovirus on Chinese Wuhan leak etc etc etc)
Two can play this game.
