China accuses U.S. of hacking Huawei servers since 2009

Beijing says Washington forces tech companies to install backdoors for spying

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China has accused the U.S. of hacking Huawei's servers continuously since 2009. (NIKKEI montage/Source photos by AP and Getty)

CHENG TING-FANG and CISSY ZHOU, Nikkei staff writers

TAIPEI/HONG KONG -- China has accused the U.S. of continuously hacking Huawei's servers and conducting cyberattacks to steal other critical data since 2009, the latest salvo between Beijing and Washington as tensions further escalate.

China's Ministry of State Security on Wednesday released a post on its official WeChat account titled "Revealing key despicable methods by U.S. intelligence agencies in cyberespionage and theft."

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