On giving it another thought, I have another perspective, which might not be too conspiratorial to consider: gatekeeping open source community from China by Western proponents to discourage their participation.
Steve Bannon as former US SoS did state the creation of a China-free clean internet. And Biden is continuing Trump's policies against China.
Intel leads with KPI count, and yet, not one of these souls calls out Intel, but Huawei being a Chinese company, and a very young one, and also a Platinum Member of the Linux Foundation, gets scrutinised. To me, it sounds like the analogy I always provide wrt China - the one kid bullied by everyone in the class to force them to take up whatever role the common narrative wants.