SANTUL NERKAR2026年9月10日2018年，时任华为首席财务官孟晚舟。当时她在加拿大被捕，被指控窃取美国公司的商业机密。 Nicoco Chan/ReutersThe 2018 arrest in Canada of a senior executive at Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant, inflamed already strained relations between Beijing and Washington.2018年，中国电信巨头华为的一名高管在加拿大被捕，激化了北京和华盛顿之间本已紧张的关系。After three years of detention in her luxurious Vancouver homes, the executive, Meng Wanzhou, reached a deal with federal prosecutors and flew back to China. But the agreement did not end the U.S. government’s efforts to prosecute Huawei, which officials say has long defied U.S. law by stealing from American companies and evading sanctions against Iran.在温哥华的豪华住宅中被拘禁三年后，这位名叫孟晚舟的高管与联邦检察官达成协议，飞回了中国。但该协议并没有结束美国政府起诉华为的努力，官员们表示，华为长期以来无视美国法律，窃取美国公司的机密，并规避对伊朗的制裁。Now, after eight years, the case against the company is being heard in a federal courtroom in Brooklyn.如今，八年过去了，针对该公司的案件正在布鲁克林的一家联邦法庭审理。Opening statements began on Wednesday, and the trial could last four months.开案陈词已于周三开始，审判可能会持续四个月。“The entire business operated through a pattern of theft, lies and cover-ups,” Taylor Stout, a federal prosecutor in the Justice Department, told jurors.“整个企业都是通过盗窃、谎言和掩盖事实的模式运作的，”美国司法部联邦检察官泰勒·斯托特告诉陪审员。The witnesses who are expected to testify include former Huawei employees, experts on telecommunications technology and a banker who Ms. Meng admitted misleading about the company’s dealings in Iran.预计将出庭作证的证人包括前华为员工、电信技术专家，以及一位银行人士——孟晚舟曾承认向此人隐瞒了华为在伊朗的业务往来。Ms. Meng, who is Huawei’s chief financial officer and whose father founded the company, struck the deal with prosecutors in 2021 to avoid jail time. Since 2019, Huawei has been effectively banned from selling its products in the United States; U.S. officials have feared that they could pose a national security threat.孟晚舟是华为的首席财务官，她的父亲是公司创始人。为避免入狱，她于2021年与检察官达成了协议。自2019年以来，华为实际上已被禁止在美国销售其产品；美国官员担心它们可能构成国家安全威胁。Huawei has continued to sell smartphones and equipment that support telephone and internet networks worldwide. It is also an important part of the Chinese government’s efforts to develop artificial intelligence chips, despite Washington’s efforts to slow China’s progress. A guilty verdict for Huawei may not significantly affect the company’s fortunes.华为仍在继续向全球销售智能手机以及支持电话和互联网网络的设备。尽管华盛顿努力放缓中国的发展步伐，但华为也是中国政府开发人工智能芯片计划的重要组成部分。对华为作出有罪判决可能不会对其命运产生重大影响。But federal prosecutors are moving ahead with their case against the technology giant, which U.S. officials have viewed with suspicion for decades. The United States has long accused the Chinese government of sponsoring efforts to steal trade secrets, ranging from sophisticated defense technology to corn seeds in Iowa.但联邦检察官正在推进针对这家科技巨头的案件，几十年来，美国官员一直对该公司持怀疑态度。长期以来，美国一直指责中国政府支持窃取商业机密的活动，涉及的范围从尖端的国防技术到艾奥瓦州的玉米种子。Defenders of Huawei have argued that the case has been fueled by retaliation against China’s efforts to build 5G networks around the world, using Huawei’s technology. Huawei has denied any wrongdoing, saying it operates independently from the Chinese government. It attributes its growth not to stealing trade secrets, but rather to strong investment in research and development.华为的辩护者认为，此案的动因是对中国利用华为技术在全球建设5G网络的报复。华为否认有任何不当行为，称其独立于中国政府运营。该公司将其发展归功于在研发方面的大力投资，而不是窃取商业机密。In a pair of statements, Huawei said the “U.S. government’s overarching narrative is demonstrably false” and that it had “the utmost respect for intellectual property.”在两份声明中，华为表示“美国政府的总体叙事显然是虚假的”，并称该公司“对知识产权有最高程度的尊重”。Huawei was founded in the 1980s by Ms. Meng’s father, Ren Zhengfei. Its rise mirrored that of China, which was undergoing a momentous transition toward becoming a capitalist economy.华为由孟晚舟的父亲任正非于20世纪80年代创立。其崛起历程与中国的发展轨迹相呼应，当时中国正在经历向资本主义经济转变的重大过渡。Brian Heberlig, a lawyer representing Huawei, said Mr. Ren built Huawei through hard work and that he “hired people with the same work ethic.”华为的代表律师布莱恩·赫伯利格表示，任正非通过辛勤工作创立了华为，并且他“雇佣了具有相同职业道德的人”。As Huawei ascended, U.S. officials worried that the company’s technology could be used to spy on Americans, that Huawei was ripping off American competitors and that it was doing business with Iran, in defiance of U.S. law.随着华为的崛起，美国官员担心该公司的技术可能被用来监视美国人，担心华为剽窃美国竞争对手，并无视美国法律与伊朗进行交易。A new indictment filed against Ms. Meng and Huawei in 2020 echoed some of those concerns. Huawei and its affiliates, prosecutors said, used “a pattern of racketeering activity” to steal trade secrets from American companies. Huawei, prosecutors said, stole intellectual property from six companies — identified by The New York Times as Cisco Systems, Motorola Solutions, Fujitsu, Quintel Technology, T-Mobile and CNEX Labs.2020年针对孟晚舟和华为提起的一项新起诉书呼应了其中的一些担忧。检察官表示，华为及其附属公司利用“一种诈骗活动模式”从美国公司窃取商业机密。检察官称，华为窃取了六家公司的知识产权——《纽约时报》确认这六家公司为思科系统、摩托罗拉系统、富士通、Quintel科技、T-Mobile和CNEX实验室。The stolen information included source code and operating system manuals, according to an indictment. The company even launched a bonus program for employees who stole information from competitors, according to the indictment.根据起诉书，被窃取的信息包括源代码和操作系统手册。起诉书还显示，该公司甚至为从竞争对手处窃取信息的员工设立了奖金计划。In one particularly brazen example of theft from 2004, prosecutors said, a Huawei employee was caught trying to steal from a competitor at a Chicago trade show. The employee, prosecutors said, was discovered late at night trying to photograph the inside of a networking device.检察官表示，在2004年一起尤为明目张胆的盗窃案例中，一名华为员工在芝加哥一场贸易展上试图从竞争对手那里窃取信息，被当场抓获。检察官称，该员工在深夜被发现试图拍摄一台网络设备的内部。And through working in Iran with a subsidiary known as Skycom, prosecutors say, Huawei gave Iranian intelligence services the means to spy on its own citizens. Huawei hid the fact it was doing business in the country, said Mr. Stout, the federal prosecutor, including by removing Huawei’s logo off packaging shipped to Iran.检察官表示，华为通过其名为Skycom的子公司在伊朗开展业务，为伊朗情报机构提供了监视其本国公民的手段。联邦检察官斯托特说，华为隐瞒了它在该国开展业务的事实，包括将运往伊朗的包装上的华为标志移除。Huawei’s lawyers have argued that the charges are part of a misguided effort by the Justice Department to target Chinese people and businesses. Competition over 5G and the U.S.-China trade war “made Huawei a prime target for the Justice Department and other federal agencies,” lawyers for Huawei wrote in a filing last year.华为的律师辩称，这些指控是美国司法部针对中国公民和企业所采取的错误行动的一部分。华为的律师在去年的一份法庭文件中写道，围绕5G领域的竞争和美中贸易战“使华为成为司法部和其他联邦机构的首要目标”。On Wednesday, Mr. Heberlig said that prosecutors had provided a “distorted picture” of Huawei, arguing that they had described ordinary business as crime and unfairly focused on a few instances of trade theft among a company with hundreds of thousands of workers.周三，赫伯利格表示，检察官描绘了一个“扭曲的”华为形象，认为检方将常规商业行为描述为犯罪，并且极不公平地将重点放在了一家拥有数十万名员工的公司中为数不多的几起商业窃密事件上。“Huawei’s success did not come from theft, racketeering or fraud,” Mr. Heberlig said in court.“华为的成功不是来自盗窃、敲诈勒索或欺诈，”赫伯利格在法庭上说。The case burst into the open with the arrest of Ms. Meng by Canadian police in December 2018, which came at the request of the U.S. government. In retaliation, the Chinese government detained two Canadians, charging them with espionage.随着2018年12月加拿大警方应美国政府要求逮捕孟晚舟，此案被公之于众。作为报复，中国政府拘留了两名加拿大人，指控他们从事间谍活动。The standoff further calcified relations between the United States and China, which were locked in a trade war initiated by President Trump. He at one point suggested that Ms. Meng could be a bargaining chip in a potential trade deal with China.这场对峙进一步加剧了中美关系的僵局，当时两国正陷入由特朗普总统发起的贸易战中。他曾一度暗示，孟晚舟可以成为与中国潜在贸易协议中讨价还价的筹码。Yet Ms. Meng remained detained under an $8 million bail in Vancouver until September 2021, when she reached the deal with the Justice Department, then under President Biden, for her to return to China, where she received a hero’s welcome.然而，孟晚舟以800万美元的保释金一直被扣留在温哥华，直到2021年9月，她与拜登总统领导下的司法部达成协议，被允许返回中国，在中国，她受到了英雄般的欢迎。Under a deferred prosecution agreement, Ms. Meng admitted that Huawei had misled a bank about its dealings with Iran, which dodged U.S. sanctions. Her admission will be key evidence during Huawei’s trial, after a federal judge ruled in June that it was admissible.根据一项延期起诉协议，孟晚舟承认华为曾就其与伊朗的交易向一家银行提供误导性信息，从而规避了美国的制裁。在联邦法官于6月裁定其可作为证据采纳后，她的供述将成为华为审判期间的关键证据。Within hours of Ms. Meng’s departure in 2021, China released the two Canadians from detention, though U.S. officials said their release was not part of the deal reached with Ms. Meng.在2021年孟晚舟离开后的几个小时内，中国释放了两名被拘留的加拿大人，尽管美国官员表示，释放他们并不是与孟晚舟达成协议的一部分。Santul Nerkar是《纽约时报》记者，报道布鲁克林联邦法院新闻。翻译：纽约时报中文网点击查看本文英文版。