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I think you are right. IMHO the room actually does speak/understand Chinese, even of the robot/human in the room does not.
There are no neurons in your brain that "understand" English, yet you do. Intelligence is an emergent property. If you "zoom-in" enough everything is just laws of physics and those laws don't understand English or Chinese.
If we carry the thought experiment forward, the parking lot requires a human to put in energy to make the whole system knowledgeable. In order for knowledgeability or intelligence to emerge we still need a human involved in the process, whether it's a Chinese room or a parkinglot covered with shredded dictionaries or a chatbot productivity software.
We have not eliminated the human from the process, and until we do, we can not say that it is intelligent or knowledgeable.