Inside Huawei The biggest company you've never heard of

摘要

AT LUNCHTIME IN A COMPANY restaurant in Shenzhen, young engineers and programmers lounge over plates of grilled salmon, tap on their smart-phones and chat in several languages. Like their counterparts in Silicon Valley and Bangalore, these ambitious Chinese 20-somethings, with degrees from top universities, are trying to build lucrative careers at one of their nation's biggest private companies, the telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies. In their sedate jackets and open-necked shirts, they don't look like a mortal threat to the U.S. But to politicians and cybersecurity experts in Washington, these kids are potential spies and saboteurs, and the telecom equipment they design is too dangerous to install in American communications networks.