The relation between China and the neighboring country

taxiya

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It is ONLY an issue in the eyes of westerners who see Chinese=70%Singaporean, therefor the strange connection of China influencing Singapore.

In PRC, it is 中国 the country vs. 汉人 (the so called Chinese in western concept). 70% of Singaporean are 汉人, the culture and ethnic entity. 汉人 does NOT equate to 中国人 (the people of China) even though 汉人 makes up 90% of the population. No Chinese state modern or ancient has ever equated the two concepts. It is ONLY an issue of the westerners and west-brainwashed Chinese nationals based on their racially based concept of nation state.

The problem can only be addressed by NOT getting into the debate point-to-point. But instead call out the fundamental fault, that is to demand the NYTimers to re-educate themselves of the truth in other part of the earth, shaking off their western-centric non-sense.

@solarz
Ineed, both the Chinese people and government should stop using the term of 外籍华人 (ethnic Chinese, like Chinese American etc.). That in term encouraged former Chinese nationals to play the ethnic card to gain advantage over both Chinese citizen and ordinary foreigners when doing business in China. For example, in 2017 there was the fuss of some trying to advocate ethnic Chinese being granted free entrance to China and rights of properties more than ordinary foreign nationals.
 

Hendrik_2000

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@Hendrik_2000

It is ONLY an issue in the eyes of westerners who see Chinese=70%Singaporean, therefor the strange connection of China influencing Singapore.

In PRC, it is 中国 the country vs. 汉人 (the so called Chinese in western concept). 70% of Singaporean are 汉人, the culture and ethnic entity. 汉人 does NOT equate to 中国人 (the people of China) even though 汉人 makes up 90% of the population. No Chinese state modern or ancient has ever equated the two concepts. It is ONLY an issue of the westerners and west-brainwashed Chinese nationals based on their racially based concept of nation state.

The problem can only be addressed by NOT getting into the debate point-to-point. But instead call out the fundamental fault, that is to demand the NYTimers to re-educate themselves of the truth in other part of the earth, shaking off their western-centric non-sense.


I thought the traditional Chines government policy from Qing to KMT toward overseas Chinese has always been to recognize as Chinese subject. The colonial power recognize this as well. Chinese never was considered as natives and in fact the policy is to separate Chinese from native creating problem after independence

When PRC come to power they continue this policy until they realize it create a problem with newly independent countries in SEA . Remember China was isolated in 60's and try to gain friends . And they start to change the policy and ended this dual nationalities due to protest from the Indonesian and Malaysian. giving people the choice to become PRC citizen or local citizen
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China even send ship and repatriated 100,000 Chinese from SEA when they suffer from pogrom and resettled it in their ancestral province mostly Fujian, Hainan and Quangzhou. Latter on of the ship captain become million-er and he said that is the highlight of his life

Kuo Mojo the famous poet and minister of education of China even penned a poet asking the central government to resettled all 5 million OC But the GLF and subsequent disaster prevent it
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I remember clearly sending off relatives in the harbor to China with ships

Now that China is more self confidence and rich they change again with new 5 year visa
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taxiya

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I thought the traditional Chines government policy from Qing to KMT toward overseas Chinese has always been to recognize as Chinese subject. The colonial power recognize this as well. Chinese never was considered as natives and in fact the policy is to separate Chinese from native creating problem after independence

When PRC come to power they continue this policy until they realize it create a problem with newly independent countries in SEA . Remember China was isolated in 60's and try to gain friends . And they start to change the policy and ended this dual nationalities due to protest from the Indonesian and Malaysian. giving people the choice to become PRC citizen or local citizen
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China even send ship and repatriated 100,000 Chinese from SEA when they suffer from pogrom and resettled it in their ancestral province mostly Fujian, Hainan and Quangzhou. Latter on of the ship captain become million-er and he said that is the highlight of his life

Kuo Mojo the famous poet and minister of education of China even penned a poet asking the central government to resettled all 5 million OC But the GLF and subsequent disaster prevent it
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I remember clearly sending off relatives in the harbor to China with ships

Now that China is more self confidence and rich they change again with new 5 year visa​
I agree that ROC (KMT) and the PRC (up till 1960s) regard oversea Chinese as Chinese citizens, which they must because these Chinese are not British citizens even when they live on British colonial territory. However, I see that policy choice as the only choice rather than a preferred choice because the reason above.

As of Chinese imperial dynasties (not limited to Qing), it is almost impossible to discuss the subject because the very concept of Sovereignty (the base of citizen(republic)/subject(Imperial)) is different between China (then) and today. Chinese empire regards everybody under the heaven subject of the son of heaven, there is no fundamental difference between a person from China proper and another person in Southeast Asia being an imperial subject.

Now when touching the practical matters. Chinese subjects (from the proper) who left territory directly ruled by the Emperor settling abroad WITHOUT official sanction were treated as 自外于天朝, something equal to betrayal. In modern sense it is "renouncing Chinese citizenship", certainly not what you may think. This is the attitude of both Ming and Qing. Take Ming's dominance of Vietnam for example, Ming attempted to change Vietnam to a province in the early 1400s, if succeeded, everybody in Vietnam would have been fully Ming (Chinese) subject. When it failed, Ming and subsequently Qing never bothered to control or rule or protect anybody in Vietnam with ancestry from China proper, regardless them being Han, or Miao etc. Through all the readings by myself, I have never heard of imperial Chinese dynastic government paid any positive attentions to people left their rule. The only case I am aware of is 海禁, (blockade of going oversea), both in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Once again, one has to drop the western concept of nation state which has a clear boarder and exclusive non-overlapping rule over population and territory when talking about the policy of imperial China. Otherwise, the discussion will become so messed up like Chicken talking to Duck.
 

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Through all the readings by myself, I have never heard of imperial Chinese dynastic government paid any positive attentions to people left their rule. The only case I am aware of is 海禁, (blockade of going oversea), both in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

The diplomatic practices of the late Qing were reformed to be modeled after the Western nation-state, and hence China's diplomatic corps attempted (at least nominally) to protect its citizens abroad and establish positive relations with overseas Chinese.

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Hendrik_2000

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The diplomatic practices of the late Qing were reformed to be modeled after the Western nation-state, and hence China's diplomatic corps attempted (at least nominally) to protect its citizens abroad and establish positive relations with overseas Chinese.

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Exactly The Qing government appoint the most successful OC as their representative complete with rank and Hierarchy At the same time the colonial government mostly left the governing of civil administration to the Chinese head man or socalled Kapitan Cina. It is self governing society. Sometime the same person become the consul general of Qing government

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Tjong Ah Fie, Majoor der Chinezen of
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Kapitan Cina, also spelt Kapitan China or Capitan China (
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: Captain of the Chinese;
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: Kapitein der Chinezen) was a high-ranking government position in the civil administration of
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. Office holders exercised varying degrees of power and influence: from near-sovereign political and legal jurisdiction over local Chinese communities, to ceremonial precedence for community leaders.
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The origin of the office, under various different native titles, goes back to court positions in the precolonial states of
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Many rulers assigned self-governance to local foreign communities, including the Chinese, under their own headmen. Often, these headmen also had responsibilities beyond their local communities, in particular in relation to foreign trade or tax collection. For example,
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Similarly, the court title of Chao Praya Chodeuk Rajasrethi in Thailand under the early
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combined the roles of Chinese headman and head of the Department of Eastern Affairs and Commerce.
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, arguably the founding father of modern Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia, served as Chinese headman while holding the Malay court position of Sri Indra Perkasa Wijaya Bakti.
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Use of the title 'Kapitan' in the civil administration has parallels in the sixteenth-century, colonial Portuguese
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Since then, a long succession of Kapitans formed an intrinsic part of colonial history in Southeast Asia.
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as the region is known in Chinese history.
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Instrumental to the establishment of Dutch colonialism in Indonesia were Chinese allies, such as
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in the late nineteenth century
 

taxiya

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The diplomatic practices of the late Qing were reformed to be modeled after the Western nation-state, and hence China's diplomatic corps attempted (at least nominally) to protect its citizens abroad and establish positive relations with overseas Chinese.

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That was true, and I should have mentioned it as well. But that is not really the "Chinese" practice, but western practice that was forced upon China, pretty much the same as later ROC and PRC. If it was up to the then Chinese imperial government, they would not have done so, would they?

1850 is the line that separate the Chinese world order and modern western based world order, everything after that line was pretty much non-Chinese.

The original topic was "1st the imperial Chinese government practice towards oversea Chinese and 2nd ROC and PRC practice". My response was to the 1st which I should have stressed the 1850 cut-off line.
 
just in case: I know there's no land border between China and Malaysia LOL
now Malaysia threatens to nix Chinese projects
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AX CHINA-BACKED PROJECTS

Days before heading to Beijing for his first visit since his stunning electoral victory three months ago, Mahathir said Malaysia doesn't need a Chinese-backed $20 billion East Coast Rail Link and two energy pipelines worth $2.3 billion. The projects have been suspended pending renegotiation.

"We don't think they are viable. So if we can, we would like to just drop the projects," Mahathir said.

If scrapping the projects altogether isn't doable, Malaysia will need to put them on hold until the future, "where perhaps the need will arise," he added. Some of that money has already been paid and could be difficult to recoup.

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STOP MILITARIZING SOUTH CHINA SEA

Mahathir cautioned against further militarizing the disputed South China Sea by reiterating his call for warships not to be permanently stationed there, warning it could cause an unhealthy “arms race.”

"We are all for ships, even warships, passing through, but not stationed here," he said. "It is a warning to everyone. Don't create tension unnecessarily."

China claims much of the sea as its own and has built up several man-made islands and equipped them with runways, hangers, radar installations and missile stations to bolster its claim. It has accused the U.S., which routinely deploys warships and aircraft to the sea, of meddling in a purely Asian dispute. Chinese ships also patrol the sea.

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... and I think the rest is unrelated to China
 

taxiya

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just in case: I know there's no land border between China and Malaysia LOL
now Malaysia threatens to nix Chinese projects
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... and I think the rest is unrelated to China
AX CHINA-BACKED PROJECTS

Days before heading to Beijing for his first visit since his stunning electoral victory three months ago, Mahathir said Malaysia doesn't need a Chinese-backed $20 billion East Coast Rail Link and two energy pipelines worth $2.3 billion. The projects have been suspended pending renegotiation.
Make up your mind Mahathir. If you don't need the projects, why do you want renegotiation?

P.S. don't play the book of Trump. Contract is contract, how do I know you or your successor will stick to the "renegotiated" contract?

"We don't think they are viable. So if we can, we would like to just drop the projects," Mahathir said.
Good, then drop it. China is ok so long as every compensation term in the contract is fulfilled. That's why these terms are there for.

If scrapping the projects altogether isn't doable, Malaysia will need to put them on hold until the future, "where perhaps the need will arise," he added. Some of that money has already been paid and could be difficult to recoup.
All terms are in the contract, all money spent is in the book. Mahathir does not need to come to Beijing to know if it is doable to scrap the contracts. So he should not play fool. P.S. He is over 90 years old, he should have some self-respect at this age.

Put on hold is ok, just go through the terms.

P.S. China is not going to dance with Malaysian's domestic political rivalry games.
 

solarz

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Make up your mind Mahathir. If you don't need the projects, why do you want renegotiation?

P.S. don't play the book of Trump. Contract is contract, how do I know you or your successor will stick to the "renegotiated" contract?


Good, then drop it. China is ok so long as every compensation term in the contract is fulfilled. That's why these terms are there for.


All terms are in the contract, all money spent is in the book. Mahathir does not need to come to Beijing to know if it is doable to scrap the contracts. So he should not play fool. P.S. He is over 90 years old, he should have some self-respect at this age.

Put on hold is ok, just go through the terms.

P.S. China is not going to dance with Malaysian's domestic political rivalry games.

OBOR crosses quite a number of countries that have less than stable governments. I imagine China anticipated these kinds of scenarios. The good thing about long-term planning is that you can always out wait these silly little political games.
 

Hendrik_2000

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Last week is the anniversary of 40th Japan-China peace treaty. Japan need to see history straight in the eye as Tomiichi Murayama
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once said. Sadly too few of the Liberal democrat heed his advice except for Yukio Hatoyama
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He is the single PM of Japan who is sympathetic to China and Asia But as usual he get booted out from the office

Still there are many Japanese individual who is truly sorry for the what Japan did in WW II and try to make amend. and we should not hate Japan as a nation. Many ex Japanese soldiers volunteer their service to 8th route army and the fledgling PLAAF at the end of WWII

In reciprocity many Chinese family adopted and care as their own many abandoned Japanese children and they human way they repatriated many Japanese settler
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Now that Trump announce America first policy suddenly Japan is out of favor and has to fend for herself
They should realized where their future is
 
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