华为技术有限公司周三开始陈述己方观点，辩称作为一家处于前沿的全球科技领军企业，它对窃取商业秘密毫无兴趣。这是一场高风险的刑事审判，涉及数十名证人、大批律师以及数以百万计美元的法律费用。
Huawei Technologies started presenting its case on Wednesday, arguing that as a cutting-edge global tech leader it had no interest in stealing trade secrets, in a high-stakes criminal trial involving dozens of witnesses, legions of lawyers and untold millions of US dollars in legal fees.
这家总部位于深圳的公司在纽约东区联邦法院对14项刑事指控表示不认罪，指控包括敲诈勒索共谋、银行欺诈、电信欺诈以及跨越二十余年的商业秘密窃取。如果败诉，这家成立四十年的公司将面临巨额财务和监管处罚。
The Shenzhen-based company has pleaded not guilty to 14 criminal counts in New York’s Eastern District Court, including racketeering conspiracy, bank fraud, wire fraud and trade secret theft spanning more than two decades. If it loses, the four-decade-old company faces huge financial and regulatory penalties.
控方于周三上午结束举证，指控华为作为一个犯罪企业运作，窃取知识产权——包括与美国电信运营商T-Mobile“Tappy”智能手机测试机器人相关的材料——并违反美国对伊朗制裁以助推其全球扩张。控方在近七周时间里传唤了61名证人。
The government, which wrapped up its case on Wednesday morning, has alleged that Huawei operated as a criminal enterprise that stole intellectual property – including material related to US telecoms carrier T-Mobile’s “Tappy” smartphone-testing robot – and violated US sanctions against Iran to fuel its global expansion. The prosecution has called 61 witnesses over nearly seven weeks.
华为辩护的大致轮廓——即其增长和成功源于自身的研发而非任何非法行为——周三在辩护律师道格拉斯·艾克塞尔传唤首位证人、华为高级高管兼董事会成员杨超斌出庭时便已展现。
The broad outlines of Huawei’s defence – that its growth and success are a product of its own research and development rather than any illegal acts – were on display on Wednesday as defence lawyer Douglas Axel called his first witness, Yang Chaobin, a senior Huawei executive and board member.
在往往枯燥乏味的提问中——这是这场高度技术性审判双方的共同特点——杨超斌详细阐述了公司多年来在电信网络、终端设备以及协助制定行业标准方面取得的若干进展。
In response to often-tedious questioning, a common feature on both sides in the highly technical trial, Yang detailed several advances the company made over the years in telecoms networks, handsets and helping forge industry standards.
“我深度参与了这项创新，”杨超斌通过翻译作证称，谈及他协助于2008年开发的一项名为“SingleRAN”的技术。
“I was deeply involved in this innovation,” Yang testified about a technology called “SingleRAN” he helped develop in 2008, speaking through an interpreter.
SingleRAN即单一无线接入网，是一种架构，允许移动网络运营商在单一、统一的硬件平台和基站配置上运行多种无线接入技术。
SingleRAN, short for single radio access network, is an architecture that allows mobile network operators to run multiple radio access technologies over a single, unified hardware platform and base station set-up.
他补充道：“我想说，这是我华为职业生涯中最自豪的时刻之一。”
“I would like to say this was one of the proudest moments in my Huawei career,” he added.
增加华为难度的是，联邦地区法官安·唐纳利（Ann Donnelly）允许政府引入华为首席财务官孟晚舟2021年作出的供述，当时她已在加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省温哥华被拘留近三年。
Complicating Huawei’s task, District Judge Ann Donnelly has allowed the government to introduce admissions made in 2021 by Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou after she was detained for nearly three years in Vancouver, British Columbia.
作为获释的条件，她承认2013年曾向汇丰银行一名高管就华为与天通（Skycom，一家在伊朗运营的关联公司）之间的联系作出了误导性陈述。
As a condition of her release, she acknowledged that she made misleading statements in 2013 to an HSBC executive about the links between Huawei and Skycom, an affiliated company operating in Iran.
阿克塞尔一度试图向显得无精打采的陪审团展示华为开发的一些更贴近生活的新奇产品，包括一款折叠笔记本电脑和一款三折叠手机，但被法官制止。
Axel at one point sought to show the listless jury some of the more relatable gizmos that Huawei has developed, including a foldable laptop and a three-way foldable mobile phone, only to be reined in by the judge.
转换策略后，阿克塞尔致力于引出一系列指标，旨在展示这家私营公司的规模和全球影响力——据一些估计价值约2000亿美元，是中国的“国家队”企业之一。
Pivoting, Axel worked to elicit a slew of metrics meant to showcase the size and global reach of the privately held company, worth some US$200 billion by some estimates and one of China’s national champions.
这些指标包括：全球21万名全职员工、投入数十亿美元及11万名员工从事研发、以及旨在确保在全球范围内遵守专有技术规定的保障措施。
These included its 210,000 full-time employees worldwide, the billions of US dollars and 110,000 employees devoted to research and development, and its safeguards meant to ensure compliance with proprietary technology globally.
戴着眼镜、穿黑色运动鞋、发际线后移的杨某表示：“保护知识产权符合华为的一切利益，不仅在中国，在其他参与者中也是如此。”
“It is in Huawei’s every interest to protect intellectual property rights,” said Yang, with eyeglasses, black sports shoes and a receding hairline, “not just in China but among other players”.
为强化观点，辩方引用了华为技术工程师朱一斌（音译）的案例，他在2004年参加芝加哥Supercomm通信展后被解雇。
To amplify its point, the defence cited the case of Zhu Yibin, a Huawei technical engineer, who was dismissed in 2004 after attending Chicago’s Supercomm trade show.
据报道，保安人员发现朱一斌在会后时间未经授权拍照、检查竞争对手网络公司（包括富士通网络通信公司）展位的设备。
Security guards reportedly caught Zhu taking unauthorised photographs and inspecting equipment after hours at the conference booths of competitor networking companies, including Fujitsu Network Communications.
在激烈的交叉询问中，美国助理检察官马修·斯库尼克（Matthew Skurnik）质疑杨的约1000万元人民币（约合150万美元）奖金和“几十万元”人民币的基本工资，是否取决于他在审判中作证是否成功；询问华为哪位人士要求或指示他出庭作证，并盘问他对于一家如此庞大的公司涉及的每一个合规问题能了解多少。
In sharp cross-examination, Assistant US Attorney Matthew Skurnik questioned whether Yang’s approximate bonus of 10 million yuan (US$1.5 million) and base salary of a “couple hundred thousand” yuan were dependent on his testifying successfully in the trial; asked who at Huawei asked or told him to testify and quizzed him on how informed he could be about every compliance problem involving a company that large.
“我认为这不公平，”杨回答道。“华为拥有超过21万名员工。”周三，双方法律团队也多次发生争执，导致在陪审团听不到的地方举行了数次庭边会议，就异议和关联性进行辩论。唐纳利（Donnelly）法官有时对阿克塞尔（Axel）的节奏和方式表示担忧。“与其问‘你对此记得什么’，我们需要稍微聚焦一些，”她说。
“I do not think that is fair,” Yang responded. “Huawei has over 210,000 employees.”Wednesday also saw repeated tussling between the two legal teams leading to several sidebars outside the earshot of jury members to wrangle over objections and relevance. Donnelly, on occasion, expressed concern with Axel’s pacing and approach. “Rather than ‘what do you remember about it’, we need to focus a bit,” she said.
北京多次批评这起长达八年的法律案件是国家驱动的“经济霸凌”行为。
Beijing has repeatedly criticised the eight-year legal case as an act of state-driven “economic bullying”.
“中方坚决反对美方打压遏制中国企业，坚决支持中国企业维护自身合法权益，”外交部在9月审判开始时表示。华为多年来未披露其支付的法律费用总额。
“The Chinese government firmly opposes the US side’s suppression and containment of Chinese enterprises and firmly supports Chinese enterprises in safeguarding their legitimate rights and interests,” the Foreign Ministry said in September at the start of the trial. Huawei has not revealed how much it has paid in legal bills over the years.
但法律界和业内分析师估计，这些费用达数千万美元，甚至可能高达数亿美元。华为聘请了多家精英“白鞋”律师事务所，包括阿克塞尔所在的盛德律师事务所（Sidley Austin LLP）、Steptoe LLP和Jenner & Block，动用了数十位资深合伙人和辩护律师，其中一些人的收费高达每小时2500美元。而这些工时累积起来是一笔巨款。
But legal and industry analysts estimate these amount to tens of millions and potentially hundreds of millions of US dollars. Huawei has retained several elite “white-shoe” law firms, including Sidley Austin LLP, where Axel works, Steptoe LLP and Jenner & Block, drawing on dozens of senior partners and defence lawyers, some of whom bill up to US$2,500 per hour. And those hours add up.
最初的起诉书于2018年底下达。从那时起，华为律师团队一直在应对复杂的证据开示程序、多年的庭审准备、专家证人费用、专业的司法会计工作、涉及孟晚舟的国际引渡程序，以及目前正在进行的联邦陪审团审判，预计审判将持续到11月甚至更久。
The initial indictment was handed down in late 2018. Since then, Huawei lawyers have dealt with complex discovery proceedings, years of preparation, expert witness fees, specialised forensic accounting, international extradition proceedings involving Meng leading to the ongoing federal jury trial, which is expected to last well into November, if not longer.