A quick internet search and a look at the Chuwi forum confirms this:
In addition, the hardware is designed exclusively for Windows, and even there there are tons of issues.
Linux is not Windows 
The laptop should have different settings for the USB-C port in the BIOS, have you tried this?
Otherwise I would recommend booting different live distributions (e.g. Fedora/Debian/Ubuntu) to check whether the same problem occurs.