Worries Grow in Singapore Over China’s Calls to Help ‘Motherland’

[Mista]

China playing the race card is nothing new. Lee warned Asia about it...

Chapter 37

Deng Xiaoping's China

The Malaysians must be suspicious of Deng. There were underlying suspicions and animosity between Malay Muslims and Chinese in Malaysia, and between Indonesians and their ethnic Chinese. Because China was exporting revolution to Southeast Asia, my Asean neighbors wanted Singapore to rally with them, not against the Soviet Union, but against China.

Asean governments regarded radio broadcasts from China appealing directly to their ethnic Chinese as dangerous subversion. Deng listened silently. He had never seen it this light: China, a big foreign power, going over the governments of the region to subvert their citizens. I said it was most unlikely that Asean countries would respond positively to his proposal for a united front against the Soviet Union and Vietnam and suggested that we discuss on how to resolve this problem. Then I paused.

Deng's expression and body language registered consternation. He knew that I had spoken the truth. Abruptly, he asked, "What do you want me to do?" I was astonished. I had never met a communist leader who was prepared to depart from his brief when confronted with reality, much less ask what I wanted him to do. I had expected him to brush my points aside as Premier Hua Guofeng had done in Beijing in 1976 when I pressed him over the inconsistency of China's supporting the Malayan Communist Party to foment revolution in Singapore, not Malaya. Hua had answered with bluster, "I do not know the details, but whenever communists fight, they will win." Not Deng. He realized that he had to face up to this problem if Vietnam was to be isolated. I hesitated to tell this seasoned, weather-beaten revolutionary what he should do, but since he had asked me, I said, "Stop such radio broadcasts; stop such appeals. It will be better for the ethnic Chinese in Asean if China does not underline their kinship and call upon their ethnic sympathy. The suspicion of the indigenous peoples will always be there, whether or not China emphasizes these blood ties. But if China appeals to these blood ties so blatantly, it must increase their suspicions, China must stop radio broadcasts from south China by the Malayan and Indonesian Communist Parties.

Lee actually regards Deng as one of the most impressive men he ever met. Because of Deng's willingness to change course, the fate for more than a billion people have changed for the better.

 

[gambit]

We are all ethnic Chinese sharing the same culture so what's wrong with it?

So you see nothing wrong with asking someone -- regardless of his/her racial/ethnic origin -- to betray citizenship and loyalty and turns towards those racial/ethnic ties instead?

The corollary to this is...That there is nothing wrong with engaging in a war to 'liberate' those who shares one's own racial/ethnic ties from the governments that they live under.

I have predicted -- on this forum -- yrs ago that after JPN, China will be the next Asian country to start another racially based war. Looks like am not too far off.

Lee actually regards Deng as one of the most impressive men he ever met. Because of Deng's willingness to change course, the fate for more than a billion people have changed for the better.

That does not take away from the charge from Lee that China was using race as a tactic during the Cold War to start communist revolutions in other Asian countries.

 

[TaiShang]

Looks like you are running out of counter argument becos my reply is so correct that you try derail with racism?

Derailment and dementia.

He must have been badly beaten by Mark Whalberg and hit hard in the head:

I quote from Wikipedia:

"In April 1988, Wahlberg approached a middle-aged Vietnamese man named Thanh Lam on the street and, using a large wooden stick, bashed him over the head until he was knocked unconscious while calling him a "Vietnam fu**ing shit". That same day, Wahlberg also attacked a second Vietnamese man named Hoa "Johnny" Trinh, punching him in the eye without provocation. According to court documents regarding these crimes, when Wahlberg was arrested later that night and returned to the scene of the first assault, he stated to police officers: "You don't have to let him identify me, I'll tell you now that's the mother-fu**er whose head I split open."[17] Investigators also noted that Wahlberg "made numerous unsolicited racial statements about 'gooks' and 'slant-eyed gooks'".[18][19]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Wahlberg

@Jlaw

 

[master_13]

So you see nothing wrong with asking someone -- regardless of his/her racial/ethnic origin -- to betray citizenship and loyalty and turns towards those racial/ethnic ties instead?

The corollary to this is...That there is nothing wrong with engaging in a war to 'liberate' those who shares one's own racial/ethnic ties from the governments that they live under.

I have predicted -- on this forum -- yrs ago that after JPN, China will be the next Asian country to start another racially based war. Looks like am not too far off.


That does not take away from the charge from Lee that China was using race as a tactic during the Cold War to start communist revolutions in other Asian countries.

you are grossly extrapolating here, appeal to chinese overseas is equivalent to betraying their citizenship? Where do you see that in the article? They aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, Israel does this all over the world all the time. I've seen people who are proud of being both Chinese and being an American, what's wrong with that? At the end of the day, China and US are not at WAR, there's nothing wrong being proud and feel connected with both. A lot American Chinese don't betray their citizenship simply because they also feel connected with Chinese culture.

 

[haidian]

So you see nothing wrong with asking someone -- regardless of his/her racial/ethnic origin -- to betray citizenship and loyalty and turns towards those racial/ethnic ties instead?

The corollary to this is...That there is nothing wrong with engaging in a war to 'liberate' those who shares one's own racial/ethnic ties from the governments that they live under.
.

Are you nuts? When did I say something like this?

 

[seesonic]

Are you nuts? When did I say something like this?

Its called a strawman argument.

Accusing you of something, twist your words into something absurd to prove his point.

Indian style of argument. Common among indians in PDF.

 

[Jackdaws]

China is free to "appeal" to every country and community on the planet. It has been "appealing" since eons. Except for sentimental people, no one really cares.

 

[Jlaw]

Its called a strawman argument.

Accusing you of something, twist your words into something absurd to prove his point.

Indian style of argument. Common among indians in PDF.

And Vietnamese refugees trying to appease white folks