Huawei Technologies Co. has been on a public-relations blitz to convince the world that it isn’t a bad actor. Now Huawei’s intensified defense of its image is also being waged on a legal front. The Chinese telecommunications giant is pursuing legal campaigns against an array of overseas critics large and small. In France, it has filed a defamation complaint against a researcher who claimed that Huawei is controlled by the state. It secured a court judgment against a small newspaper in Lithuania that admitted mistranslating...

Source: Wall Street Journal December 03, 2019 17:03 UTC