The charges against Huawei include reselling US goods to Iran, obstruction of justice, and theft of trade secrets.

Keeping technical trade secrets is antisocial, and if Huawei had released them to the public, I for one would not criticize. However, it appears that Huawei proceeded to keep the same techniques secret.

I applaud the fact that this article avoided describing trade secrets as "intellectual property", which would have confused trade secrets with other things that are totally different.