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Huawei Racketeering Trial Opens in Brooklyn Court

Huawei Racketeering Trial Opens in Brooklyn Court

Is Huawei a criminal enterprise or a legitimate foreign business unfairly targeted?
Huawei Racketeering Trial Opens in Brooklyn Court
Above: The Huawei logo during the 2026 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Shanghai, China. Image credit: Long Wei/VCG/Getty Images

The Spin


Huawei isn't some misunderstood telecom firm — atwo couple decades of stealing American technology, lying to banks and helping Iran spy on its own citizens is exactly what a criminal enterprise looks like. Blaming a handful of rogue workers out of 200,000 employees doesn't wash when the pattern stretches across 170 countries. Banning this gear from U.S. networks was the bare minimum.

Stringing together stale intellectual property squabbles and one engineer's dumb stunt with a phone-testing robot into a mob statute built for the Mafia is prosecutorial overreach. Eight years of legal siege, a CFO held in Canada and a case surviving three administrations show a target hunted in search of a crime. If routing dollars through a U.S. bank makes any foreign company prosecutable here, nobody is safe.


Metaculus Prediction

There's a 94% chance that a Chinese firm will make a large order of domestic AI chips before 2027, according to the Metaculus prediction community.


The Controversies



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