A great part of Huawei’s supposed infamy can be boiled down to two things. The first is that the company is actually very well-run and extremely innovative—a fact that Westerners, convinced of their own technical superiority and the relationship between technological innovation and a particular set of political/cultural values, find unnerving.

The second is the view that because the founder is a member of the party, it must be controlled by the Chinese government.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/techland/side-huawei-we-don%E2%80%99t-know-206789