There is NO "China". And there are no "Chinese".
"China" is a name given by Westerners in English. Any educated "Chinese" (should be called Huaren) onverseas should choose occasions to deny the existence of a name called "China".
"China, blah blah"
"Excuse me?"
It's Middle Kingdom, or "Zhonghua", or "Huaxia".
It has been the land of mainly Han Chinese since the ancient time.
The Han, also called "Huaren", are the cultural, economical and technological core of the land, always have been.
ALL historically Han -ruled dynasty had been the #1 in the world economically, culturally and technologically, without an exception. And being the #1 by a long shot.
However, there is also "China".
"China" is what the English /Westerners call tableware, strictly speaking it's a derogatory term to Huaxia.
I don't buy Qin'a = China explaination.
"China" refers to the land that has been ruled by all rulers including the Han, the Mongols (Yuan Dynasty) , the Manchus (Qing), and CPC which I don't consider as Han-ruled but aliens in both mthodology and practice.
Historically, ALL non-Han-ruled dynasties, namely Yuan and Qing, even though they were eventually Sinonized, brought untold economical, technological and cultural disasters and miseries to the Middle Kingdom.
One of the major reasons of "century of humiliation" of the Middle Kingdom is Qing:
Middle Kingdom under Qing failed to carry on industrial revolution as Western Europe and even backwater Japan did at a time, despite the fact that "at the eve of England's industrial revolution, China's markets were much more advanced and sophisticated than anything in Western Europe" ( by Adam Smith) ... The Middle Kingdom stagnated on GDP/per cap literally for 2 centuries and dropped from being world's best to being one of the world's poorest as the direct consequence. The following mis-rule of CPC has furthered the humiliation.
Both "China" and Taiwan should change their official names into:
People's Republic of Zhonghua/Huaxia, and
Republic of Zhonghua/Huaxia.