Millions of people of Chinese origin are nationals of countries other than China and they don’t back Beijing.
In late February, 59-year-old Phillip Chan Man Ping became the first person in Singapore to be officially designated a “politically significant person”.
The city-state’s authorities had already announced that Chan had “shown susceptibility to being influenced by foreign actors, and willingness to advance their interests” and that Chan’s activities “were directed towards a political end in Singapore” making it in the public interest for “countermeasures” to be taken.
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“As he openly called on overseas Chinese to tell China’s story well, he also attempted to blur the distinction between Chinese nationals and non-China nationals of Chinese descent,” Loh said.
“And I think that most countries will find it unacceptable to have its own citizens working for a foreign actor to exert influence that might work against the interests of your country.”
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According to Associate Professor Ian Chong Ja, who teaches Chinese foreign policy at the National University of Singapore, Xi’s language suggests that the CCP sees ethnic Chinese across the world as a vehicle to mobilise support and advance Beijing’s interests, even if those people are not nationals of China and have no allegiance to the country.
No. I’m ethnic Chinese in SEA, and it disgusts me about how they claim international waters as their own, using intimidation, obsfucation and economic coercion as their preferred tactics. Xi and the CCP can go fuck themselves.
CCP missed the memo, identity politics is dead.
Identity politics aren’t dead to the CCP, so they aren’t dead.
That statement is in no way, shape, or form a defense of the CCP.
Tell that to the huge amount of gullible older ethnic Chinese people who’ve been receiving all sorts of China propaganda. As someone who’s living in Singapore and witnessed so much of this, it’s disgusts me what they’re doing.
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The Soviets had COMINTERN. The CCP wants to rely on shared Chinese identity.
Xi and his CCP can kiss my ass.
Also, I take news from this source with a barrel load of salt.
Lesson learned by all right wing politicians: kick out all ethnic Chinese and send them to China.
