When China sentenced a Canadian citizen to death, we all got the idea that they were not kidding around about the detention of one its own from Huawei. But, they also know what happens when this kind of thing gets going, and there is much more to come for the hapless employee-owned company. This time Huawei will face criminal charges for stealing proprietary information from T-Mobile. It was a typical Chinese theft case. The company working with T-Mobile apparently tried to steal a small probe used in testing of smartphones by T-Mobile. It is almost laughable that the Chinese would want to steal something so small (see the Wall Street Journal with picture) that nobody could possibly think it was worthy of this kind of risk. Yet, the Chinese may well have taken that risk anyway. That will all come out in charges if and when they are finally brought.
It really does show a couple of things: (1) the Chinese will steal almost anything they want and think they need and (2) even when they get caught and have to go to court, they can settle their way out of any criminal charges.
If it looks like piling on (a term used in football when a player is tackled and other players fall on him - mostly to cause more irritation) but it is only getting started.
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