Talk:China

Edit Request

The image under the "Foreign Relations" section, which is a map of China's relationship with the other countries on earth, lacks a key. One has to assume what the various colours mean, making it relatively useless. I propose it's current caption be replaced with the caption found on the same image in the article for the Foreign Relations of China:

"Official diplomatic relations between world states and China
   (Red) People's Republic of China (PRC)
 (Green) Republic of China (ROC)
  (Blue) States that have diplomatic relations with the PRC
  (Lime) States that have diplomatic relations with the ROC
 (Black) States that have diplomatic relations with neither"

I'm not sure how to embed colours, but it's not my prerogative, regardless. Intilyc (talk) 19:44, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 23 April 2026

There are wikilinks for the Two-child policy and Three-child policy but not one for the One-child policy despite all three being mentioned? Also, the two-child policy wikilink links to the general page when it should probably link to the subsection Two-child policy#China? Additionally, it might be better if the two paragraphs on population policy are it's own subsection with a link to the wider article, Family planning policies of China, eg:

...with births at 7.92 million, the lowest recorded birthrate since at least 1949.

Population policies

Main article: Family planning policies of China

Given concerns about population growth... BtecBrady (talk) 12:40, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

•  Done Although wikilinking one-child policy had already been done by someone else. ⹃Maltazarian ^{ᚾparley$\lor$investigateᛅ} 05:12, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

"チャイナ" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect チャイナ has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 April 25 § チャイナ until a consensus is reached. A1Cafel (talk) 04:14, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 26 April 2026

The image under the "Foreign Relations" section, which is a map of China's relationship with the other countries on earth, lacks a key. One has to assume what the various colours mean, making it relatively useless. I propose it's current caption be replaced with the caption found on the same image in the article for the Foreign Relations of China:

"Official diplomatic relations between world states and China

  (Red) People's Republic of China (PRC)
(Green) Republic of China (ROC)
 (Blue) States that have diplomatic relations with the PRC
 (Lime) States that have diplomatic relations with the ROC
(Black) States that have diplomatic relations with neither"

I'm not sure how to embed colours, but it's not my prerogative, regardless. Intilyc (talk) 21:46, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

 Done InfernoHues (talk) 03:33, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

mentioning in the info box that china is authoritarian

I have notice that the info box of several countries does mention them as authoritarian like in the case Russia, but not only. in the case of china, it is not only authoritarian but even totalitarian and in fact currently the most totalitarian on earth. saying that china is just Unitary communist state, is almost as misleading as calling north Korea democratic republic. In fact today china economy is also much more capitalist so even the label communist is misleading from several direction.

I suggest to change it to totalitarian. sources: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/725994/summary https://www.jstor.org/stable/422248

ArmorredKnight (talk) 13:42, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

@ArmorredKnight I strongly disagree. China has a communist state form. TheUzbek (talk) 04:02, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

only formally. defacto they have market economy, so not communist at all. and on the other hand, this is the most totalitarian state in term of surveillance. so just calling it communist is misleading at best, and totally false at worst.

China is formally communist, but de facto totalitarian dictatorship with a market economy. It has nothing to do with communist type of government, unless communism mean market economy with totalitarian surveillance. ArmorredKnight (talk) 11:27, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

Considering the vast amount written about China's government, two sources is nowhere near sufficient for any given claim. It's certainly not for "totalitarianism" especially considering one of these is from 1993 and when the other is yet another derivative of prioritizing minority dissident narratives without consulting to how mainstream Chinese people feel about the system they live within. While I'm less of a formalist than @TheUzbek on this issue, I think this is nowhere near good enough quality for the claim you are making. For example I would suggest you'd have to square these papers with things like Tang Wenfang's account of Chinese citizens self-perception of freedom relative regional peers (you can find this cited on Wikiepdia here). Basically it's difficult to take a charge of "totalitarian" seriously when the citizenry being subjected to such see themselves as free to a greater extent than the citizens of the formally democratic Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. Simonm223 (talk) 11:55, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

Peer review

China

I've listed this article for peer review because I want to get it back into Good Article status, and potentially bring it into Featured Article status later in the future. I figured that, considering the article's size, a peer review might be the best before any Good Article nomination.

Thanks, The Account 2 (talk) 10:56, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

Misspelling of “चीन”

The section “Etymology” begins with “The word "China" has been used in English since the 16th century; however, it was not used by the Chinese themselves during this period. Its origin has been traced through Portuguese, Malay, and Persian back to the Sanskrit word चिन Cīna, used in ancient India.” In that second sentence, the Sanskrit word “चीन” is misspelled as “चिन”. This should be corrected. The Latin transliteration “Cīna” is correct. Even without consulting historical sources, it is clear that there is a mismatch between the Devanagari spelling and the transliteration. Farmdudler (talk) 12:56, 17 May 2026 (UTC)