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China for arabs back then was basically "in a far far away land". Most of the time they didn't literally mean China. Men in China aren't named "Aladdin" China isn't ruled by a "Sultan" and it's population wasn't almost entirely muslim.
The original Aladdin doesn't mention anything Chinese and anything Buddhists, Daoists, or Confucians. This because to middle easterners back then, setting your fictional story in China was basically setting it in "a far far away land". Because China was scene as a great civilization at the other side of the silk road. People would buy things from China without meeting any Chinese person or knowing what China was like. So to them China was perfect to capture people's imagination and to create mystery and intrigue.
>early Arabic usage of China is known to have been used in an abstract sense to designate an exotic, faraway land.