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The crisis is one that has been faced before by the Overseas Chinese, an unassimilated group that has lived for centuries among alien peoples. As early as 300 B.C., Chinese merchants in clumsy junks coasted along the shores of Viet Nam. When European adventurers and explorers first made their hesitant...
The European imperialists regarded them as rivals. The Spanish in the Philippines were nearly wiped out before they rallied to slaughter 23,000 Chinese at Manila in 1603. At midcentury, a Chinese exile and pirate named Koxinga drove the Dutch from Formosa; later the Dutch retaliated by wholesale murders of...
The Endeared. The hua-chiao are often a headache not only to the countries they live in but to the rulers of Nationalist and Red China as well. Formosa, needing friends in the Far East, has friendly feelings for countries that continue to recognize it, such as the Philippines, Thailand...
Red China has played it both ways. In the first flush of conquering the mainland, the Reds championed the Overseas Chinese and even allotted them 30 seats in the National People's Congress at Peking. The hua-chiao were called "the endeared children of the Chinese nation" and were...
Then the love affair palled. Red China decided that the Southeast Asian governments were more important than the Overseas Chinese and. wooing the Afro-Asian nations at Bandung. China's Premier Chou En-lai urged that Chinese abroad "be loyal to the countries they live in." The disenchantment was...