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by selectodude 1301 days ago
Two decades ago, the Chinese military was actively raiding Nortel's IP directly from their servers. Regardless of when and what the US government is doing, Huawei and ZTE's tech is built off of rampant state-sponsored IP theft and shouldn't be used and can't be trusted.

https://globalnews.ca/news/7275588/inside-the-chinese-milita...

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Even if they stole IP 20 years ago so what? US industrial revolution was famously started by copying ideas from Europe https://www.history.com/.amp/news/industrial-revolution-spie....

There's no way to deny that Huawei was years ahead of competition with their 5G offerings, so it seems this is much more a story about telecom becoming patent trolls rather than R&D focused companies, something something creating value to shareholders.