A new civil lawsuit in California has revealed details of how Chinese telecom firm Huawei—flagged by U.S. intelligence as posing serious security risks to American citizens—schemes to steal trade secrets from U.S. companies.
In a whistleblower retaliation case filed in a Northern California state court, former Huawei employee Jesse Hong claims that the company fired him after he refused to pose as a staffer at a fake company in order to gain entry to a tech summit hosted by Facebook.