Wouldn’t put it past most large telcos to do a little targeted spying.
If your crazy ex wants to know where you were last night, they can jump in a telegram group run by someone at a PI firm reselling their access on the side and it'll cost less than your dinner did.
Huawei's real mistake is that they disrupt the silicon tech leadership of intel and other traditional vendors in that space, with a number of --- in hindsight ---- excellent strategic moves, for example
* they now hold a "controlling" majority of G5 mobile patents
* they are a strong and serious player in automotive
* ASIL D real time kernel for automotive functional safety
* integrated platform from microcontroller all the way to Android-alike in the UI
* this is unlike BOSCH, Continental, Renesas, Delphi/APITIV, etc, who were blocked by the traditional car vendors to create such a platform
* "Huawei aims at becoming a BOSCH" https://tcrn.ch/3v7O4z1
* serious cloud player
* serious player end to end in the mobile market (from backend via physical broadcast network to mobile phones and OS on top)
oh, and their ownership structure is spread ownership by employees. the majority shareholder is the founder with a whopping 1.9% of shares.
afaict they pay like FAANG/MAAMA/... and offer very comparable possibilities for personal development.
they are doing pretty much everything right while the traditional wealth has no control over them.
and _that_ is something "the West" fights nails and toes.
https://news.itsfoss.com/huawei-kernel-contribution/
We read a lot on HN about Apple's M1 and how it was the first customer of TSMC's 5nm process. In fact, Huawei had bought the initial slot TSMC's 5nm process, and it was only the sanctions against Huawei that forced TSMC to reneg on its contracts and give them to Apple.
The article you link to is vague about what, exactly, Huawei supposedly did. If the US or Australian government had solid evidence of something like that the article claims, I have no doubt that they would be shouting it from the rooftops.
this is literally what they are doing
China will collapse in a few decades due to lack of replacement population. They most certainly do "answer to the west". This is why they're being so aggressive about trying to get tech planted into western culture, and take Taiwan back, they know what's coming for them.
Maybe you ought to think a little further about why it's a power struggle?
Huawei does not answer the the West and has become too big in a strategic industry so the US took steps to attempt to kill it. It is simple geopolitical power struggle.