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