I know of enterprises in APAC now spending millions of dollars on Huawei GPUs, while they might not be as efficient, they are seen as geopolitically more stable (especially given the region).
DeepSeek helped "prove" to a lot of execs that "Good" is "Good enough" and that there are viable alternatives with less perceived risk of supply chain disruption - even if facts differ may from this narrative.
Yes, I know them too, I live there!
The hardware is great, CANN is not CUDA yet.