In the LLM intellectual property paradigm, I think this registers as a solid "Who cares?" level offence.
The point isn’t some moral outrage over IP, the point is a company may be falsely claiming to have expertise it does not have, which is meaningful to people who care about the market in general.
Nobody who pays attention to Huawei will be surprised. They have a track record of this sort of behaviour going right back to their early days.