Yet their engines are still poky and cars too global. Even if they improved, they still don’t make anything I’d want to drive.
Now if they managed to clone an American landyacht with a US-style (read: >3L, not an I4) engine, but without the stratospheric price tag, I’d show some interest.
The biggest Chinese engine in a car I saw was a 2.4 liter 4 cylinder Mitsubishi clone from 1990s on 2009 Great Wall Hover.
I also drove a newer Chinese full-size SUV powered by 2 liter! 4 cylinder engine. It was turbocharged to about 200 hp.