US brings new charges against Chinese tech giant Huawei

The US justice department has added new criminal charges against Chinese tech giant Huawei and several subsidiaries, accusing the company of a brazen scheme to steal trade secrets from competitors in America. The new indictment also alleges the company provided surveillance equipment to Iran that enabled the monitoring of protesters during 2009 anti-government demonstrations in Tehran, and that it sought to conceal business that it was doing in North Korea despite economic sanctions there. The company disputed the allegations in a statement and said they were “without merit”. False allegations by US officials and the @WSJ against #Huawei of planting “backdoors” in...