By Samuel Rubenfeld ( September 10, 2026, 00:50 GMT | Insight) -- For 20 years, Huawei Technologies operated its business as a criminal enterprise, using theft, lies and cover-ups, federal prosecutors told jurors Wednesday in their opening argument in the long-anticipated trial of the Chinese telecommunications giant and several of its subsidiaries. A lawyer for Huawei said the government had strung together “cherry-picked” incidents across two decades to form a pattern that doesn’t exist.For 20 years, Huawei Technologies operated its business as a criminal enterprise, using theft, lies and cover-ups, federal prosecutors told jurors Wednesday in their opening argument in the long-anticipated trial of the Chinese telecommunications giant and several of its subsidiaries....
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