After Reports on NSA, China Urges Halt to Cyberspying

The Chinese government called on the United States to explain its actions and halt the practice of cyberespionage, after news reports said that the National Security Agency had hacked its way into the computer systems of Huawei, China’s largest telecommunications company.

Huawei, founded by a former People’s Liberation Army engineer, has been largely frozen out of North America despite the company’s insistence that it is independent of the Chinese government. The documents did not reveal whether the American spy agency had found evidence that Huawei was less independent than it claims.