I found some articles on it [1] [2], but not any mentions in these recent articles.
Given this history, you can see why there might be some doubt about their ability to produce original products. If they were to for example steal the 5G architecture from another company, you can't be certain they would even report it in fears their stock prices would drop.
> The fear generated from this story adds a ton of power to things like the CHIPS Act.
It's difficult to say whether the fear is warranted or not. China have blatantly stolen IP for many years now without accountability, and have no plans to stop.
[1] https://videocardz.com/newz/chinese-new-powerstar-p3-desktop...
[2] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chinese-powerstar-p3-01105...
What about this article? It says Huawei has the largest 5g patent portfolio in the world: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-16/huawei-to...
That said, these large companies are highly motivated to patent anything and everything the patent office will accept. It's a broken system anyway, but I can't suggest anything better.
The irony of Huawei or any Chinese manufacturer wanting to charge for use of patents is that they have grown by abusing the patents and trademarks of others. Apple for example lost the trademark fight over the use of 'iPhone', despite filing a trademark bid some 8 years prior [1].
The fear generated from this story adds a ton of power to things like the CHIPS Act. It benefits manufacturers, pushes a ton of narratives from China, US, Taiwan, Korea, Japan. Kind of a perfect story for so many different players.