Der Spiegel: NSA spied on major Chinese networking company Huawei during intelligence campaign against China. Chinese politicians such as former president Hu Jintao, the Trade Ministry, as well as banks and telecommunications companies were also targeted. Documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed the 2009 operation dubbed Shotgiant against Huawei, the major competitor of US-based Cisco. Huawei is the second-largest supplier of network hardware equipment with 150,000 employees and annual revenue of $38.6 billion.”]