Reading up on some of the history of Asia I just can't help but notice the adjective "Sino" being the odd one out when it comes to naming of wars and international relations, for example the Sino-Indian war or the Sino-Soviet split as oppose to, say, the Franco-Prussian war or Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
Is "Sino" in reference to a Chinese dynasty or is it just a word the West made up to refer to them or is it something completely diffrent?
Comes from "Sinae" the old Latin word for southern China.
Probably the etymology goes from the Chinese "Qin" (first dynasty to unify China) to the Sanskrit "Cheen", and from Sanskrit to Latin and other European languages.