https://wccftech.com/huawei-hongmeng-os-for-smartphones/

In an aggressive move and with the snap of its fingers, the U.S. blacklist order forced Google to cease its business partnership with Huawei. This effectively means that no smartphones or tablets launched by Huawei will have access to Google’s Play Store and its long list of official applications. Huawei’s handsets will still be supported by the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), but it will hardly be enough to convince customers to continue using devices without an existing app repository.

Huawei claims that they were anticipating that such a move would be made, and they’ve taken the necessary steps to make sure that the effects of this blow are mitigated as much as possible. One of those steps would be to develop its own smartphone operating system, which reportedly has a name now.