While amusing, it's embarassing having you on this forum. You seem incapable of being accurate or polite. You said:
"China, the two characters that spell China, mean 'The Center of the World'."
Really, I've heard that before. But I believe that the actual history (vs. your histrionics) is more complex. The word "China" is simply an anglicized version of an old Chinese name of an ancient province. Check it out:
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/imperial.html#first "Much of what came to constitute China Proper was unified for the first time in 221 B.C. In that year the western frontier state of Qin, the most aggressive of the Warring States, subjugated the last of its rival states. (Qin in Wade-Giles romanization is Ch'in, from which the English China probably derived.)"
http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/chinhist.html "After nearly 900 years, the Chou Dynasty came to an end when the state of Ch'in, the strongest of the seven surviving states, unified China and established the first empire in 221 BC. The Ch'in empire did not last long, but it left two enduring legacies: the name China and the idea and structure of the empire. This heritage outlasted the Ch'in Dynasty itself by more than 2,000 years. (See Ch'in Dynasty)"
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CHEMPIRE/CHEMPIRE.HTM "In Chinese history, the Ch'in are the great, evil dynasty, but Western historians often stand in awe of the Ch'in. They were repressive, autocratic, and frequently cruel, but they were also brilliant political theorists and reformers who historically brought about one of the most energetic periods of Chinese government. Their story, however, is a very brief one. For from the time the Ch'in unified China in 221 BC, to the time of their fall fifteen years later in 206 BC, not even a generation had passed. For all that, so massive was their accomplishment that our name for China is derived from the Ch'in."
If you can post something credible supporting your claim, please feel free to do so.
But, I don't care if some third rate country thinks that it's ancient name might mean something about being the center of the world. I'm sorry you're so scared of them.
And if you actually read the history, you discover the people who created the name 'Qin,' or Ch'in,' didn't last very long. Why don't you think a similar situation of internal struggle will occur again? Are you part of the 'Defeat America First' crowd that panicked about the Japanese and Saudis 'buying' America in the 1980s?
And you don't think Japan had imperial ambitions in the 1930s? When was the rape of Nanking? What country was expanding and conquering SE Asia in the 1930s and 1940s? Do you remember Pearl Harbor?
At least your consistent. You're as accurate and credible as your pal Al Gore.
If you can't post something credible on this forum, it would help everyone if you avoided humiliation by keeping your mouth shut.
I studied Japanese for three years and can read and write Chinese characters (I am sure you are unaware that Japanese uses a subset of Chinese characters). The first character used to spell China means "Center". The Japanese kun reading is naka. The on (Chinese) reading is Chung or Chu.
The second character means nation. The Japanese kun reading is kuni. The on reading is koku or kuo.
The half educated like you translate it as Middle Kingdom when the true meaning is "Center of the World". These same characters are used in Chinese and Japanese.
Child, before the brief historical interlude of the round eyed sea peoples, China was a quarter of this planet's GNP. It has the brains, the bulk, the numbers, the resource base, the technological base to be the dominant superpower of this planet. Germany, the USSR, Japan, Britain... each of them lacked one of the above. China has it all.