As always medium articles are more about eloquence rather than facts.
Huawei makes its own cpus Hisilicon, and I'm pretty sure they make their own proprietary modems, I mean they are the nr 1 telecom company in the world and even if for some reason they don't, mediatek makes modems which they have sold previously to apple.
So the real problem here are Google services for the. Global market.
Hardware wise, huawei got the hold of it IMHO.
Sorry in advance for any linguistic mistakes, I'm not a native English speaker.