Huawei launches first phones capable of running HarmonyOS NEXT

No. Especially if one day the alternative solution (chip, OS) is good enough for the better hardware to draw people voluntarily to this alternative solution forgoing the default American solution.

Or in more direct speak: yes you can ban chips. It'll slow them down. Yes you can ban an OS. It'll slow them down.

But we've seen it with mobile chips in particular. All of them are fast and good enough for everyday use or can ANY of us REALLY tell the difference between an iPhone 16 Pro, 15 Pro or 14 Pro in day-to-day performance?

Chips as well as OS don't even have to become as good as the most modern Qualcomm/Apple chip or Android/iOS. As long as it becomes good enough for day-to-day use people will buy based on other differentiation factors (design, form factor, other capabilities such as battery run time, cameras, etc).