On overseas Chinese
On overseas Chinese
In response to Arman's letter in The Jakarta Post on Dec. 26,
1996, entitled Overseas Chinese.
Officially China did not have a Manchu (Manchuria) Dynasty. It
was the Qing Dynasty.
Why can't China invite people, including the so-called
overseas Chinese or Chinese descendants, to invest in China?
When Cambodia opened a Chinese school, some people from the
Embassy joined the ceremony. What's wrong with that? It's the
responsibility of all governments to spread their countries'
culture.
In China (including Taiwan, Hong Kong), as times have changed,
the word for overseas Chinese word has already changed.
Previously it meant Chinese who were living abroad, but now it
means Chinese descendants. No one thinks that Southeast Asian
Chinese descendants are Chinese. Of course people who still
maintain Chinese nationality are an exception.
All people (races) should love and respect each other. Hate is
not a healthy teaching.
WANG FENG
Tangerang, West Java