“Maybe they are.”
It’s not “maybe,” it’s “they are.” You people really have no idea what’s going on in the geopolitics of spaceflight.
I just posted an image of Zhuque-3, a Chinese methalox Falcon 9 knockoff. It almost successfully landed its booster in its maiden flight. CZ-12 attempted a landing on its maiden flight. CZ-10A’s booster successfully tested a water landing next to its landing platform, next flight will probably be a landing on its platform.
Zhuque-3 compared to F9
China is copying SpaceX Falcon 9 and Starship.
“How's this relevant?”
China’s major long term military advantage over ZOG NATO is that there are no eco-pussies and no DEI niggers to interfere with its rocket companies and industrial manufacturing.
China’s equivalent of SpaceX and Blue Origin doesn’t have to waste resources defending themselves from bioleninist human trash.
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/02/190102/spacex-falcon-heavy-test-launch-crowd