The Chinese do have to suffer through the other kind of "translation" too. I had a friend complain to me about the unreasonably long country name 圣文森特和格林纳丁斯. They're not wrong about that being an objectively unreasonable name in the linguistic context!

For the curious: sheng-wen-sen-te-he-ge-lin-na-ding-si. 圣 sheng is a fully conventionalized loan-translation of the Christian word "saint". 文森特 wen-sen-te is a sound transcription of Vincent. 和 he is an ordinary Chinese word meaning "and". 格林纳丁斯 ge-lin-na-ding-si is another sound transcription, for "Grenadines".