Thursday, Feb. 21, 1963 University Daily Kansan
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Overseas Chinese Look to Mainland
(Continued from page 2) Communists accept 8,000 students.
RADIO PEKING, which broadcasts to Southeast Asia in about five Chinese dialects. English and the vernacular languages of the region, is a primary source of information and instruction to overseas Chinese.
Novels, children's books, the works of Mao Tse-tung and Liu Shao-chi, comic strips, movies and even long-playing discs glorifying the Communist regime flood the area. Most are extremely well produced and on sale for only a few pennies.
In countries like Indonesia and Burma, which have recognized Communist China, the Communist embassies have served to further the interests of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission in Peking, both by influence on local Chinese residents and by direct contributions to the Communist party funds. In other places, such as Singapore and Malaya, Peking uses personal contacts and the Bank of China, which finances Communist sympathizers with loans and long term credits at extremely low interest rates.
THE COMMUNIST Chinese made one blunder in its relations with the Southeast Asian countries. They initially would not accept "peaceful co-existence" as a substitute for the "inevitality of war." And they could not convince the countries of their peaceful intent while directing the internal Communist parties to use armed force in their revolutions.
But in 1955, China changed its
tactics and soon fooled some of the Southeast Asian leaders. Two of these gullible leaders were Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia and President Sukarno of Indonesia.
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In recent years, however, both the competing Chinas have been instructing the overseas Chinese to become good citizens of their respective countries. They have stopped being the champions of the rights of overseas Chinese as citizens of China. This is apparently a move to better relations with Southeast Asian countries.
THE OVERSEAS Chinese will continue to be a political and economic problem until they consent to be assimilated into the society of the countries they live in. This does not seem likely until a re-evaluation of the Communist regime takes place and the Chinese lose their
the Chinese are in control, the governments will have to contend with the threat of Communist China and its manipulation of the overseas Chinese.
The area will continue to be unstable as long as the Chinese control the economy. To achieve stabilization, the governments should push for a program of Chinese assimilation into the predominant society and culture.
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Most overseas Chinese are far enough removed from the brutal realities of Communism to be ignorant of its nature. Hong Kong, a colony which lives under the direct shadow of the Communist mainland, has more active anti-Communists than those among all the other Chinese in Southeast Asia. And until this re-evaluation takes place, the Chinese will continue to think of themselves as Chinese nationals and will be sympathetic to the mainland regime.
The economic problem can be resolved only after the political question is solved. Or the governments can assume complete control of the economy, train natives for business and industrial positions to replace the Chinese, and build their economies from there. But as long as
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