Huawei received over $1 billion in grants from the Chinese government in 2023.

Western countries might not be smart enough to keep R&D because Wall Street sees it as a cost center.

Tesla spent about $10 billion on AI training hardware in 2024.[1] They just might not be getting as much bang for the buck, due to their paucity of sensors. Huawei get similar performance without Tesla's four billion miles of training data.

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...