Attacking authors is a good avenue to stifle good ideas. It breeds toxic standards bodies (I’m remembering my experience with MIPI here).
No one at the MIPI and IEEE meetings that I’ve been to are afraid to speak their mind about ideas though. If you have a bad idea they’ll take the mic and explain why they think it’s bad. It’s intimidating to speak because of the PhD characters in the room, but if you know your stuff and you’re up to speed they will listen to you. And when it comes time to vote, no one’s vote will be influenced from fear of the social repercussions. If every non-Chinese person in the room doesn’t want a Huawei idea in a spec, then it isn’t getting in. That’s their job as curators and gatekeepers.