What's behind Chinese telecom Huawei's espionage allegations?

Chinese telecommunication company Huawei faces charges of stealing trade secrets from the U.S., which it denies. The Justice Department accuses the company of creating phones and products with "back doors" to the Chinese government. CBS News investigative reporter Graham Kates and CNET senior editor Dan Patterson join CBSN to explain the latest developments.

[saraman]

Funny to see those 2 folks trying to justify what cannot be justified!

[zsarimaxim]

The fear of being out competed, and the fear of lossing backdoors on communication equipments that enable the US to ears drop on foreign leaders and world bodies thus far.

[tanggo]

"Tappy" case has been settled by a jury trial, with one of the conclusion being "..no ill intent from Huawei" years ago.

[mcc]

Do you have evident and proof ? Seems like all are allegations.
thank you so much for providing so much clear lies.

[sjlovaboy]

Am I the only one getting the feeling both the ancjors are trying to dilute the espionage.

[NangongReng]

Why would you not have a Hua Wei person on the studio to answer their question?

[jiashengyan]

you asking for something solid other than speculation? Snowden

[thataxx]

Their US competitors have been caught too, no mention of that

[sergio]

Sooo.... How did the US got those emails?

[cyan]

All people on this comment section be like:
Us is bad and is spying
Chinese Hackers be like:
Am I a joke?

[danielscott]

God, these two anchors are completely out of their league on this topic and simply do not understand the severity and frequency of charges against Huawei, nor do they realize how significant the timing of said events are in context of the state of our union.

[user_uif_ghg_wer_das]

Funny the evidence one of the guy provided was taking pictures of T-Mobile's test equipment. Isn't the case too weak to give an example like that?

[wikesme]

why not check the system board of a celphone for its circuit diagram, then test it to laboratory gathering all old celphone and new brand of huawei, check its part . they said it in the memories, a tiny dot and its own memory

[respectbudda]

Actually Huawei is really a company controlled by private and its employee, not like ZTE, that is a real state own company in telecom area base on stock own.

[rc-wingman]

05:42
I like my dumb, old, cheap unhackable car!
Why do we always overengineer things to make them expensive and last shorter?

[sunnylooichinsun]

This talk is a total waste of time, not positive and no proof to accuse Huawei of all sort of espionage, it's better to talk to the dogs

[joema]

Can CBSN follow a higher journalism standard and be fair enough to distinguish between :
1. charges and guilt.
2. USA is spying on everybody, that is a fact. Huawei is spying for China, that is an allegation.
3. Sanction on Iran is a unilateral and extra-territorial law imposed by USA on other s.
4. T-mobile’s case was on Huawei employees, for a single piece technology in the hand phone. And this case has been settled without any ill finding on Huawei. Using this to implicate Huawei’s and trying to draw the conclusion that its success was based on stolen technology was very flimsy and misleading.
BTW, why can’t this so call experts tell Americans the truth that USA has long been out of the mobile infrastructure game every since Lucent was merged with French ALCATEL in 2006? There is nothing worthwhile to be stolen from USA on 5G.
All this propaganda remind me of - “read my lips, there is WMD in Iraq”.

[ligerdave]

Evidence please. I thought that's the foundation of the us

[titusp]

Wow tappy from T-Mobile.... high end corporate espionage...what secret did tappi have ?