While U.S. security officials have openly targeted Huawei’s operations in the airwaves, they have been less vocal about another potential security threat: its undersea cables. Experts say in theory these cables could enable China to spy. Photo: George Downs/The Wall Street JournalA Silicon Valley chip startup backed by Microsoft Corp. and Dell Technologies Inc. has accused a top executive at Huawei Technologies Co., Deputy Chairman Eric Xu, of participating in a conspiracy to steal its trade secrets, court documents show. The allegations were made in a lawsuit set for trial June 3 in federal court in the Eastern District of Texas, in which CNEX Labs Inc. claims Huawei engaged in a multiyear conspiracy to steal the San Jose, Calif., company’s solid-state drive computer storage technology, including...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 22, 2019 18:41 UTC