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Yes, because in China it wouldn't be "China"; it'd be 中国. Given that this is supposed to be the great wall of China, it fits.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin
Okay so the Asian equivalent of the sort of font in the OP is used for fancy/historical stuff in countries that use Chinese characters. They're usually used to evoke a sense of historicity (as it looks like it was written using a brush, as was typical before Western culture started pouring in), so for example in Japan you see it in anime set far in the past. What I'm trying to say is: This font is a perfect fit for the great wall of China, which is obviously really fucking old. Ideally you'd want the text to be 中国 rather than China but this cartoon is meant to be comprehensible to an English-speaking reader. I mean I doubt the artist intended any of this, but taken in aggregate the use of the font seems appropriate here.
I believe the point being made is that it's the racist caricature of such a font, and not an actual one.