China’s Huawei branded a criminal enterprise as tech firm’s US trial opens

The defense says: It's about competition, not conspiracy'

A US prosecutor described China's Huawei as a criminal enterprise that stole from US companies to build its telecommunications empire, as the trial against the tech company kicked off in Brooklyn federal court on Wednesday.

Theft, lies, cover-up," Taylor Stout, a trial attorney from the US Department of Justice, said in the government's opening statement. For 20 years, that's how Huawei, a massive Chinese telecommunications company, victimized American companies and abused the American financial system, all in an effort to dominate the telecommunications industry around the world."