Huawei Denies US Trade Theft Charges in High-Stakes Trial

A federal trial against Huawei Technologies has opened in Brooklyn, New York, with prosecutors accusing the Chinese firm of operating as a criminal enterprise.

Federal prosecutors allege that Huawei engaged in a decades-long pattern of trade secret theft, financial deception, and racketeering to gain an unfair global advantage.

The government claims that Huawei stole proprietary technology from multiple American firms, including Cisco Systems router source code and a T-Mobile robotic smartphone-testing device.

Huawei's defense argues that the company's global expansion was the result of legitimate innovation and ordinary commercial competition, not a conspiracy to cheat.