Asian nation vs China

Asian nation and China both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Asian nation	Yes	No	No	No
China	Yes	No	No	No

Asian nation (noun)	China (noun)
any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent	a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world
	a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong