Asking Huawei to offer SailfishOS for his mobiles since will have some problems with Android support

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Idea of the year...

Trivia - A former Jolla sailor now works for Huawei.

As much as I would like this to happen. Jolla in its current form is not ready for end users. Also with a big developer team which Huawei could provide this would need at least half a year. And generally such a new user experience is a big risky move.

This is very bad for Google, they will have less customers and less influence.

Adopting Google Android would be like pissing in your pants for warmth in the winter. Somebody must have translated that to Chinese and I am sure they have plan B and have already considered Sailfish. Spying company as they are they may even have taps in the server holding the source code, so I am expecting the upcoming Huawei OS to be a Hybrid of Harmattan, Sailfish , Tizen running with native driver layer on non USA hardware. ;-p

They have their own chips and CPUs and they've hired Tizen developers, so they're really likely to start producing smartphones without USA hardware running some sort of Tizen fork.

They have been developing their own OS for a while now and it's more likely that they will try to push that instead. But before that happens, it's likely that this situation gets solved eventually similarly to how ZTE was banned and got their license extended many times and eventually lifted. For a big company like them they probably have an interest to develop their own OS anyway. Besides, since they were caught between US-China trade war, also unlikely that they'd want to hop onto yet another foreign OS bandwagon. Even though Sailfish OS is independent, it is still a foreign OS that needs to be licensed. It's just more realistic for them develop their own. Sure doesn't hurt to try and who knows if Jolla is already throwing their pitch in but I just see it very unlikely. Seems nothing more like a Sailfish OS fan's wet dream.