We shouldn’t be surprised top-down, state-run, centrally-planned economies can achieve certain technological wonders when they put resources to it. The Soviet Union exploded an atom bomb only 4 years after the USA did. They were the first to put a man into space
Huawei is effectively a state-run company. It carries out policy goals and development that sync with, and with help from, the Chinese Government. It also has a very large captive market in China.
The question is, how are such things used to help one’s economy, improve lives of citizens, prepare for the future, develop new products, etc. etc.
Top down, central-planning, statist societies like China are walking contradictions and terrible at allowing such advances to follow their normal development course.
NASA was legit when merit based with a detailed mission.
They were also the first to put a satellite into space.................