Chinese tech giant Huawei on Tuesday stepped up its lawsuit against a U.S. military-spending ban on contracting with Huawei or companies that use its equipment, asking a Texas court to find the law unconstitutional, The Associated Press reports. Huawei, the world's biggest maker of network equipment and the No. 2 smartphone maker, filed a lawsuit in March challenging the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, saying it selectively punishes Huawei without proving it has done anything wrong.
The Trump administration says Huawei equipment could be used to spy for China, which the company denies. "The U.S. government has provided no evidence to show that Huawei is a security threat," Huawei's chief legal officer, Song Liuping, said Wednesday, according to The New York Times. "There is no gun, no smoke. Only speculation."
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