Huawei using lawsuit to help China gain tech prowess, says ex-worker

The employee said the litigation was "the latest in a long line of underhanded tactics" by China's biggest maker of smartphones and telecommunications equipment

A former employee of Huawei Technologies Co. accused the mobile giant of using a lawsuit against his Silicon Valley startup to steal intellectual property and help China achieve technological dominance over the US

The former employee, Yiren “Ronnie” Huang, said in a court filing the litigation was “the latest in a long line of underhanded tactics” by China’s biggest maker of smartphones and telecommunications equipment.

Huawei and its FutureWei unit sued Huang and his startup -- CNEX Labs Inc. -- in December, accusing him of making off with sensitive trade secrets related to technology that uses integrated circuits as memory to store