The Mate XT has garnered over seven million pre-orders through Huawei’s Vmall. Despite U.S. sanctions, which aimed to cut Huawei off from western technology, the company has aggressively pushed innovation, replacing key components with Chinese alternatives and focusing on self-reliance in semiconductors. Huawei’s response to the sanctions has positioned it as a resilient competitor, successfully revitalizing its research, chip production, and its homegrown operating system, HarmonyOS. Despite setbacks in international markets, Huawei's domestic success and continued technological advancements underscore the backfire of U.S. attempts to limit the company's growth.