I've never used Huawei phones, although I'm not opposed to it. I've used Xiaomi phones though and beyond my small quibble with their system of locking their bootloader behind a one week timer they're fine. (apparently people were loading legitimately harmful ROMs on the phones and reselling them so they made it more annoying to do so)

And if you put me in front of buttons labeled US and China and I have to choose one to spy on me constantly and see all my HD butthole pics, I'm choosing China 100% of the time since I don't live there and they have nearly zero control or influence over my life. I shouldn't be surprised, and I'm not, that Americans (racistly) cry nonstop over "Chinese spyware" which I'm not even discounting as real in some way and to some degree. Of course every country's internal departments love spying on other countries. But the biggest perpetrator of spying in the US and abroad is definitely the US. Every single ISP and all kinds of other companies that have your data consent CONSTANTLY to sharing information willingly with the US government and state governments without subpoena and often without question. Their policy is basically "person says they're law enforcement? Just give the data over." They do not value your privacy or safety at all.

Also there are post-9/11 "shadow courts" (forget the terminology) where they can gag a company who might question the subpoena for your information so they cannot legally inform you like "hey, apparently you posted too many Minecraft memes and some dudes asked for your info." I understand the logic behind why they do so, but I also lean heavily towards "nah, fuck off" when it comes to privacy and civil rights like this. I'm not going to pretend I'm an absolutist here, but I do highly value the idea of privacy and it simply does not exist in the US in any form at all despite the fourth amendment basically because 1) courts said "lol, but the cops said they "need to"" and 2) private corporations ended up controlling access to our most precious and valuable information including stuff from browser history, to online document storage (cloud), to messages like emails and texts, etc., all privatized, all ToS'd into you owning none of it and having no inherent right to demand they not share stuff. It's actually crazy. So I don't want to hear any chuds crying over China when the real threat is the US.