Huawei phones, with their custom hardware and operating system, may be easier to hack than other brands. Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, claimed that Huawei phones are “unhackable” but a U.S.-based vulnerability researcher disputes this, stating that Huawei’s brand-new code is likely to have more mistakes than iOS and Android. Huawei’s operating system, HarmonyOS, has had bugs and requires regular security updates, and the company has promised monthly security patches for some devices.
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I feel like too many people conflate digital sovereignty with actual digsec advice for the average person.
Like, should we be trusting the words of Maduro when he says stuff like this 
“The Americans can’t hack it, neither their spy planes, nor their satellites,”
But to keep this short: it makes sense for him to use a Chinese-made phone as long as it was hardened, and managed by a government IT department. The average privacy-aware person should not be using consumer market Huawei phones the same way as they should not install Windows 11 Home Edition. Enterprise and professional versions of OSes are much more configurable for a reason.
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“…si cultivas pollo, por ejemplo” (“…if you plant chicken, for example”) — Nicolás Maduro 2013
Pretty wise words come out of his mouth all the time lmao