US Lawsuit Reveals Chinese Firm Huawei’s Alleged Scheme to Steal Trade Secrets at a Tech Summit

US Lawsuit Reveals Chinese Firm Huawei’s Alleged Scheme to Steal Trade Secrets at a Tech Summit
A woman uses her mobile phone in front of a LED display board of Huawei at the Beijing International Consumer Electronics Expo in Beijing on July 9, 2018. Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images
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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.
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Annie Wu joined the full-time staff at the Epoch Times in July 2014. That year, she won a first-place award from the New York Press Association for best spot news coverage. She is a graduate of Barnard College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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