US message to world with Huawei case: Chinese technology threat to security

The case is a further sign that wider strategic tensions between the world's two largest economies will persist even if they reach a deal to end a months-long trade war

The scores of pages of US indictments handed down Monday against Huawei Technologies Co don’t explicitly mention anything about 5G networks or China’s spy agency.

But they sent a clear message to world leaders weighing whether to use Huawei equipment for next-generation wireless networks connecting everything from phones to cars to supertankers: China’s largest technology company is a threat to national security.

“They aren’t just going after the notion that there is hard evidence of previous spying,” said Graham Webster, a fellow at Washington-based research group New America who studies China’s digital economy. “They are trying to undermine trust in