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Their current long-haul optical portfolio exist because they stole the IP from Nortel (as in bugged the building and stole the source code).

In addition to destroying Nortel and the pensions of everyone who spent their careers there Huawei set up the IT infrastructure of the African Union building built by China and were caught exfiltrating all of the data from the servers to china every night.

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-african-union-headquar...

There's one example, the Nortel IP theft. I'm surprised it wasn't the first comment like every story on Huawei. The world trusts devices that come out of USA even though there is hard evidence of the NSA physically rooting devices with their own malware, but wont trust Huawei.

This is entirely trade propaganda at the behest of large cellular RF equipment manufacturers, and device manufacturers.