The Chinese government policy is being inconsistent on protecting Chinese overseas. Over time as China gets stronger it has no choice but to be consistent on protecting Chinese overseas.
Here is an example of inconsistency, on May 1998, many Chinese Indonesians were raped, killed, their businesses and houses were looted and burned and the Chinese government didn't say or do **** about it. The Taiwanese (ROC) government did.
I looked into the situation behind the 1998 Indonesian Chinese massacre/pogrom. When the initial anger and indignation cooled (a bit), I realized that again, the situation is not simple. It is multifactorial and some of the factors include (in no particular order):
- Good old fashioned ethnic/tribal/internecine hostility
- Lop-sided wealth distribution along ethnic lines
- Pervasive corruption
- Radical interpretation of Isalm (or rather radicals who usurp the name of Isalm)
- CCP's historical role in fomenting Maoism in the region
- The CCP / KMT rivalry (the Maoists were "put out" by the hundreds of thousands in the 50s and 60s, while the ones killed in 1998 were the pro-KMT "merchant class", and some say may have been "stained with the blood of the pro-CCPers themselves" ... it gets messy. Maybe someone can shed more light on this for me.
- Finanlly, Amrikan sheltering of the murderous factions of Indonesian brass (again, no surprise there), although in truth America spoke out more than the PRC did and gave asylum to many of the victims ...
Affirmative.
But the current Hun Sen government is close to China (This is because of China's 1979 actions).
.... I have too and I look at the big picture (from the geopolitical perspective).
I don't know too much about today's Indochine politics. But why wouldn't Hun Sen be? Afterall, to him China's has merit simply because China is
not Vietnam. Now it's Vietnam's turn to reap its own sour fruit.
You have your big picture friend, and I have mine.