Arlo writes:[To Lynx Ssss]
I'm assuming the title of your original post ("Fallacy?") is a way of asking if there are any logical fallacies in the 49-word sentence presented. To more easily identify the presence or absence of logical fallacies, it generally helps to clean the discussion up by putting it into a standard logical form. It also helps when one makes assumptions and definitions explicit so that no one gets misled by ambiguous terms or ones with two or more legitimate meanings. (Failing to be explicit about definitions or assumptions can lead to the logical fallacy of equivocation – and that's one of the fallacies for which I see your initial post providing a good foundation.)
Putting the statement into logical form, help show links between elements of the argument – or help show how some points are irrelevant or add little to reaching a conclusion. (Failing to link elements together or heading down irrelevant paths can lead to the logical fallacy of non sequitur – and that's one other fallacy for which I see a good foundation in your statement.)
Putting the statement into a conventional logical form helps identify the argument and the conclusion ... and neither is clear to me right now, so what follows may not be what you intended. In a conventional logical form, my understanding takes me to something like:
Premise 1: A person living in 21st century believes that largest country in the world is Russia.
Premise 2: After 3 centuries, people will come to know that largest country in the world is China.
Therefore,
Conclusion: "when people live in 21st century don't mean that largest country in the world is China."
Assuming we can agree on the meaning of "largest" (area?, population?, border length?, ...), it should be easy to tell if Russia is the largest country today. However, that's not what Premise 1 discusses ... that premise discusses what "a person" (one specific individual?, which individual?, ... people in general?, ...) believe about the largest country ... I know of no evidence to demonstrate whether premise 1 (about "believing") is true or not.
Premise 2 makes a prediction ... "...after 3 centuries (someone will) know..." that China is at that point in time the largest country. Since it is merely a prediction, it's not possible to demonstrate whether this premise is true or false (i.e., whether China will actually be the largest country by that time and whether someone will know that to be true) so the potential for a non sequitur becomes very large here. Beyond this point, premise 2 actually speaks about what "A person living in 21st century" will know "after 3 centuries". Barring any surprising advances in longevity, there's a huge non sequitur in considering what a person alive today will know 3 centuries from now!
There doesn't seem to be any link between what people believe today (premise 1), what people alive today will know in 3 centuries (premise 2) and whether people living today means that China is or isn't the largest country – I would assume that factors like population, area, etc. would be better determiners of China's size status than "people liv(ing) in 21st century". It has non sequitur written all over it!
The absence of any explanation of what constitutes "largest" for countries lets participants interpret "large" in a variety of ways, leading to differing interpretations leading from different definitions – with equivocation written all over it!
Speculating on what our contemporaries might know 3 centuries from now (assuming any of those of us live now will know anything at that point), brings us back to non sequitur because of the introduction of irrelevant material.
So, if your post was to ask if any logical fallacies exist in the sentence, I see at least 2 ... and perhaps more if I understood the argument better.