It’s definitely because they want to be known as the communist party of China (place distinction) rather than a Chinese (ethnic or nationality distinction) comm

It’s definitely because they want to be known as the communist party of China (place distinction) rather than a Chinese (ethnic or nationality distinction) communist party. The former definition is one of land and the other one is bound to people, and not all Chinese live in china, and not all people in china are ethnically Han. This probably meant more during the Stalin years (before the Sino-Soviet split) when they were strongly a branch of the communist party of the Soviet Union. The same ambiguity pops up in their acronym: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Sovie...