The difficulty with this alleged "clarity" is there is no single entity called "the Chinese government" either.

See also:

Using "China" but assuming .hk and .mo are included

Using "China" but assuming .hk and .mo are excluded

Using "China" to mean the area administered by the ROC

Using "China" to mean the area administered by the PRC

Using "China" to mean the area claimed by the ROC

Using "China" to mean the area claimed by the PRC

Using "China" to mean any area historically associated with the rule or influence of the Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Xin, Wei, Shu, Wu, Jin (1st/2nd), Sui, Tang, Wu Zhou, Liao, Song, Yuan, Ming, or Qing dynasties and their associated interregna and feudal periods.

Using "Chinese government" to mean the CCP, but not the State Council, the NPC, or the PLA

Using "Chinese government" to mean the CCP, the State Council, the NPC, and the PLA

Using "Chinese government" to mean Xi Jinping.

Using "Chinese government" to mean the KMT or DPP.

Using "Chinese government" to mean any and all the above, except the KMT, DPP, or PFP.

Using "mainland China" to try to be more specific (it still isn't, and now you've started a war)

Using "Greater China" to name your regional offices. Looking at you, Apple. (no such thing, it's a western fabrication, like General Zuo's chicken)

Referring to the Chinese language (which one?)

Referring to Chinese characters (hanzi? kanji? jiantizi? hanja??)

Referring to "Chinese food" (this is like categorizing haggis with paella)

Referring to "Chinese people" as though it's one ethnic group

Calling anyone who you think looks Chinese, Chinese.

The wumao and supporters of the CCP have been pushing this racism nonsense for a while now to try to divert criticism against the CCP. It’s unfortunately very common.

Calling out casual bigotry does not equate to sticking up for dictators.

On the other hand, calling racism "nonsense", in any context, that's some Oswald Mosley shit.

I have seen people doing this and it's deeply annoying to reframe criticism of the CCP as racism. Not everything is about race. I'm deeply annoyed by how much race is becoming a thing in general - that seems like it's going to end up being counterproductive to ending racism. I'm not going to go so far as to say it's purposeful by the CCP. But it could be.

Too often it seems like the more precision matters, the easier it is to choose the wrong word.

In this context IMHO the choice of words matters quite a bit. I do my best to never write “China” if I’m in fact referring to the entity commonly identified as “CCP”.

(I understood OP’s point though, probably because I used to make the same mistake—perhaps still inadvertently do with some other countries.)

Again with the false equivalence. You're just doubling down on being wrong. I'm out of this conversation.