ZTE Awaits Judge’s Ruling After US Probation Hearing

People walk past a ZTE Corp. booth at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Shanghai, China, on Feb. 23, 2021. Aly Song/Reuters

An FBI agent testified on Monday that Chinese nationals brought to the United States under research visas went to work for ZTE Corp. in New Jersey—a possible sign the Chinese tech company violated its probation from a 2017 U.S. plea deal.

At a hearing in federal court in Dallas, FBI special agent Marcus Wondergem said Chinese nationals came to the United States under the guise they would be doing research at the lab of Georgia Tech professor Gee-Kung Chang, but spent little time there and moved to apartments near ZTE in Morristown, New Jersey.