There are a surprising number of comments defending Huawei here. They're known to send engineering teams to Apple suppliers under false pretenses to spy on manu

There are a surprising number of comments defending Huawei here. They're known to send engineering teams to Apple suppliers under false pretenses to spy on manufacturing techniques and try to recruit insiders. They profit from government espionage into global companies, and pay bonuses to employees who successfully steal trade secrets and manufacturing techniques. Specifically for the matebook, Huawei stole a hinge design that allowed them to make their laptops thinner. > An earlier Apple-related incident, according to one source, involved Huawei copying a 2016 connector design used to make the MacBook Pro hinge thinner while linking the display to the logic board. A similar component then appeared in Huawei's 2018 MateBook Pro, something achieved by shopping Apple's schematic around to various suppliers — most of which recognized the design and refused to build it. Eventually the company found a willing partner. https://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/19/02/18/huawei-cloning-apple-parts-rewarding-employees-for-tech-theft https://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/19/02/18/huawei-clo... There's too much evidence against Huawei to dismiss their history of espionage. Reverse engineering and designing to be similar to an existing successful product is one thing, but taking manufacturing schematics and manufacturing molds directly is a different ball game.