Huawei goes on trial in New York this week, seven years after the United States charged it. Jury selection begins on Tuesday. The company is accused of racketeering, stealing trade secrets, wire fraud and bank fraud, and it denies all of it.
Larry Neumeister reported the trial date for the Associated Press. Every charge is an allegation that no jury has tested. Testing them is the point of the next few weeks.
Huawei has tried to have the case thrown out. Its lawyers argued in court filings that the allegations were too vague. They also called some of them “impermissibly extraterritorial”, and said the wire and bank fraud counts were not domestic.
Beijing has been blunter. Chinese officials have called the prosecution “economic bullying” and accused Washington of using national security as a pretext for “oppressing Chinese companies”.
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