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Huawei has a Google Mobile Services (GMS) equivalent called HMS, which acts as a compatibility layer and prevents Apps from throwing errors when running on their Android APK-support layer.

However, as I understood, in China HarmonyOS next has no Anroid-emulation layer (which is probably a wise decision if you want to drive domestic app-developers to support your platform...)

If it's distributed primarily in China, I'm not sure either of those matter.

Google Maps in China used to be reportedly unusable, and I'm sure there's local maps that have better data even if Google figured out how to manage the coordinate issues.

WhatsApp is blocked by the great firewall (or at least I haven't heard that that stopped) and has strong domestic competitors.

Does Huawei provide an Android virtual machine with Google frameworks built in? When I was traveling in Japan, I used Google Maps, and for daily use, Chrome and 1Password all worked fine.

In my daily use, only three apps run in the virtual machine: 1Password, Steam, and Chrome. They all run normally, but they're a bit laggy.