What's the correct word order and why? Should it be 红中国茶 or 中国红茶？
红茶, like 绿茶, (green tea), are particular varieties of tea.
The &quot;red&quot; and &quot;green&quot; do not standalone as verbs describing color but must be compounded with &quot;tea&quot; to indicate a particular variety of tea.
Thus red and green are not verbs but must be read together with &quot;tea&quot; forming compound nouns.
There is therefore only 中国红茶, (Chinese red tea), i.e. a variety of tea popularly known as 红茶, (which is actually black, but who would drink a tea called 黑茶, &quot;black tea&quot;?, which figuratively could mean something &quot;bad&quot; in the tea)
There is no such thing as 红中国茶, meaning &quot;red Chinese tea&quot;, which in this case, the 红 would be a verb. You could call it that if you could find a type of tea from China that is actually red in color. But then it would not be &quot;红茶&quot; anymore.