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Civilisation Is Not Citizenship: Why Beijing’s Diaspora Strategy Misreads History

Civilisation Is Not Citizenship: Why Beijing’s Diaspora Strategy Misreads History

Across Southeast Asia, more than 35 million ethnic Chinese live as citizens of independent nation-states. Their families have been in the region for generations; their identity and loyalty are shaped by Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines—not by the modern Chinese state. Yet in recent years, China and her proxies have increasingly framed the…

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