I don't see anything wrong with Chinese policy toward others with Chinese roots. It's rather simple. It's rather clear. Indeed beautifully so. With a population that is touching 1.4 billion people more than next 50 countries PRC has to keep a tight grip on the direction it takes. It has the fortunes of 1.4 billion people on it's back. That is lot of responsibility to have. There are 10s of millions of ethnic Chinese abroad. Indeed entire countries like Taiwan, Singapore are made of ethnic Chinese. Others like Malaysia etc have huge numbers of Chinese minorities.
If PRC did not adhere to strict and coherant foreign policy it would quickly become mired or stuck in dozens of problems across the globe that would deflect and hurt PRC from it's primary responsibility. I give
two examples here to contrast this. The Pak state and PRC. Pak state has a habit and it's people have become addicted with sticking their noses into
every single issue on planewt earth that remotely involves circumcized people - as long as they are not Jews.
At differant times Paks have become animated about Palestinians, Arabs, Afghans, Uighurs, Syrians, Rohingyas etc etc. In the 1970s Pak state cultivated love for Arabs. In 1980s Pak cultivated jihad to help fellow Afghan brothers. The result of all this "charity" is Pak has built up hatreds and animosities when it had no
bone in the fight. The Pak state has also restricted and tied itself as a consequence of this "charity work" helping Muslims of the world.
Now lets look at what it achieved. Afghans positively hate Pakistan while Indians are touted. Now Paks love calling Afghans "namakharams". Okay when did you make this freakin conclusion? After you spent decade plus helpinh Afghanistan and provoking Russia or before? Now of course the 1980s policy has boomaranged. After all that "love, love" now we have "hate, hate". Compare this with India. It stayed distant and today is sat pretty in Kabul laughing away.
For decades Pak has supported the Palestinian cause and as manifestation of that refuses to engage Israel. In doing so Pak has bought US Jewish lobby unrelented hate. Result we see how in Washington Pak gets shafted at every turn. As a comparison take Turkey. It has all along recognized and played along with Israel. yet Turkey carries more traction with Palestinians then Pak does. Tuekey even today has full diplomatic relationship with Israel. I note that US has no problems with Turkey recieving the 5th gen American fighters coming out this decade.
Now let's look at what the
primary interest of a state is. What the primary interest of Pak citizens is. That is to have a clean, prosperous, healthy, ordered home. That is what Pak state should be doing first. Well go visit Karachi or the countryside. Poverty, no education, conflict, sectarian wars, crime mafias, disfunctional state system. People so poor that they are selling their kidneys. People are being killed in droves. Povery causing suicide. Inequality and suffering on a scale that you struggle to comprehend. Dirt. Filth and chaos everywhere. Roads that resmble like death runs. This is the freakin state of the country. This is the responsibility of the Pak state which it has faile miserably yet it wants to do charity abroad. Pak can't run Karachi slums but it wants to launch charity runs half way across the world.
Now compare this to PRC. Go to Shanghai, go to Shenzhen. Go to rest of China. The entire country and it's people are being lifted up in a single mindeded effort like never seen ever before. I wish Pak state would do exactly like what PRC does. Clean it's mess at home before it goes and cries about rest of the world.
However, China is still a developing country, we already have 1.3 billion of our own citizens to worry about. As a nation we have to do what is best for our own citizens first, foreigners will have to wait.
Bingo. Charity begins at home. Read my post above.
@KediKesenFare
