[secondcoming]

I don't think Huawei is being accused of stealing 5G technology.

It's accused of being an espionage arm of the CCP and that having it control communications backbone infrastructure is a bad idea.

[yyyk]

> I don't think Huawei is being accused of stealing 5G technology.

That too:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-01/did-china...

[est]

Yes Nortel invented 5G in 2009, when 3G was still undertaking rollout.

[yyyk]

Basic research takes a long time; The technology of today is based on the advances made a decade ago, or even more in the past.