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  • The US is stepping up its pressure against Huawei, again.

  • Just as other countries decide whether or not

  • to use the Chinese technology companies'

  • equipment in their 5G networks, US prosecutors

  • have unveiled a fresh set of allegations against it.

  • They accuse the company not only of stealing technology

  • from their US rivals, but they say

  • that this pattern of wrongdoing was so endemic to its business

  • model that it actually constitutes

  • a criminal enterprise.

  • They have charged Huawei with racketeering

  • - essentially being an organised crime outfit

  • - and these charges carry very severe penalties if proven.

  • Huawei's assets could be seized, and its senior executives

  • could be thrown in jail.

  • The details of some of the new indictments are eye-opening.

  • They read like the pages of a spy thriller.

  • Let me read to you the details of one such incident.

  • In or about July 2004, says the DoJ,

  • at a trade show in Chicago, Illinois,

  • a Huawei employee was discovered in the middle of the night

  • after the show had closed for the day

  • in the booth of a rival technology company,

  • removing the cover from a networking device

  • and taking photographs of the circuitry inside.

  • This individual wore a badge listing his employer as Weihua,

  • Huawei spelt with its syllables reversed.

  • One of our readers, Thomaham, has asked a pertinent question

  • here.

  • That person has asked why it has taken

  • so long to bring these charges and why these companies aren't

  • being named.

  • Well, the victim companies aren't being officially

  • named, Thomaham, but the details of the cases

  • that vary closely with previous civil lawsuits brought

  • by companies, including AT&T and Motorola.

  • And as for why it's taken so long for the DoJ

  • to bring these charges, well, the DoJ

  • might say it takes a while to prosecute

  • cases of such magnitude and such complexity.

  • Huawei, however, has its own answer.

  • The company says that this is all part of a wider

  • push by the Trump administration against it,

  • which it says is being done for commercial reasons.

  • It denies any wrongdoing.

  • Well, Huawei may or may not be right about that,

  • but one thing is for sure.

  • Charges with the magnitude of racketeering

  • carry very severe penalties, and it

  • needs to take them seriously.

The US is stepping up its pressure against Huawei, again.

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