Chinese telecommunications firms Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp. should be viewed as potential threats to national security, a U.S. congressional report said on Monday.

The report, “The U.S. National Security Issues Posed by Chinese Telecommunications Companies Huawei and ZTE,” presents the results of a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence investigation begun in November 2011, nine months after Huawei published an open letter challenging “unfounded and unproven claims” that the company has ties to the Chinese military.
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