Of course I am emotional. People should not criticize the western tilt of Singapore because they do it for reason. Their prosperity and security still depend on US I bring up the relation between Spore and Malaysia to highlight the problem. China does not endear her self to the heart and mind of Overseas Chinese because Chinese failure to show empathy, solidarity, kinship to overseas Chinese. Relationship is 2 ways street. Huaqiao show boundless empathy, solidarity and kinship to China thru out history. When flood or disaster happened in China hat were passed around to collect donation and money was sent to China. In WW II my communities bear the brunt of Japanese revenge. They collect the same men who donate money and shot them in Changi known as Sookching incident. Most of them young men that neve father a family. It was estimated that 60% of Chinese war budget come from Nanyang Chinese money. We even sent young men to transport fuel, food, munition and machinery where casualty is horrendous as the japanese bomb those convoy. 1/3rd perished. Most of the supply that sustain Chinese war effort come from burma road. From Xinhai revolution to recent China reform and opening up Overseas Chinese play a substantial role that few people know. Australian government commission 350 pages report on this contribution.
Chinese foreign ministry are the worst department They are staffed by meek, docile, ignorant, and western worshipping people. It change for the better recently. Even Chinese public criticize them . Today NYT come with and excellent article about changing the guard of China foreign ministry. Here is a passage.
In an era of American hegemony, Deng’s maxim served China well abroad — but it found a chillier reception at home. Thanks in part to its tradition of soft-touch diplomacy, the Foreign Ministry has typically been seen as a weakling compared to its more powerful bureaucratic brethren like the Ministry of State Security, which exercises power domestically, or the Ministry of Commerce, which oversees lucrative industries.
The Foreign Ministry’s mission, on the other hand — handling interactions with foreigners and presenting their points of view to Beijing — has tended to earn Chinese diplomats derision and suspicion from hawks and nationalists, who used to refer to the Foreign Ministry as the “Ministry of Treason” for its perceived compromises on issues of national security and sovereignty. Ordinary citizens, too, have made their feelings known: According to one anecdote shared among Chinese diplomats, the ministry would sometimes receive calcium pills in the mail, sent by Chinese citizens who wanted the ministry to show more backbone.
The strategy of “hide and bide” began to unravel in the first decade of the 21st century, thanks in large part to two global shocks initiated by the United States. First was the Iraq War, which showed Chinese leaders an alarming and unexpected side of American power. But the key turning point was the global financial crisis of 2008. If the war in Iraq had struck a blow against the United States’ moral leadership, the financial crisis called into question its basic competence.
On 18th February, 1942, the Japanese army issued a notice asking all Chinese men aged between 18 and 50 in Singapore to go to ‘screening centers’ to collect the ‘Good Citizen Certificate’, yet this was just the beginning of a nightmare. 76-year-old Loh Weng Kee recalled emotionally that his father was ‘missing’ in this ‘screening’ massacre, known as the Sook Ching Massacre. According to the National Library of Singapore, at least 50,000 Chinese were killed by the Japanese forces during the massacre.
