Comment by kizer

It could be that it “assumed” you meant “from China”; in the higher level patterns it learns the imperfection of human writing and the approximate threshold at which mistakes are ignored vs addressed by training on conversations containing these types of mistakes; e.g Reddit. This is just a thought. Try saying: As an astronaut in Chinese territory; or as an astronaut on Chinese soil. Another test would be to prompt it to interpret everything literally as written.