Bloomberg has published a story saying that Huawei employees worked on at least 10 research projects with Chinese armed forces personnel over the past decade.

Huawei workers teamed up with members of various organs of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in projects spanning artificial intelligence to radio communications, Bloomberg said.

Bloomberg’s evidence is based on publicly disclosed studies culled from the papers from published periodicals and online research databases used mainly by Chinese academics and industry specialists.

Huawei said that it was not aware of its employees publishing research papers in their individual capacity.

Huawei spokesman Joe Kelly said the company does not have any research and development collaboration or partnerships with PLA-affiliated institutions.

“Huawei only develops and produces communications products that conform to civil standards worldwide, and does not customise R&D products for the military.”

China’s defense ministry spokesman Ren Guoqiang said: “As everyone knows, Huawei is a private company that has developed on its own. There is no so-called Chinese military background”.