The 1955 Bandung Conference, a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent. Picture: Alamy The 1955 Bandung Conference, a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent. Picture: Alamy
The 1955 Bandung Conference, a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent. Picture: Alamy
Wee Kek Koon
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Why ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia don’t owe their loyalty to China

‘China is to most of us what Britain is to most Americans or Australians with British antecedents: the country of our ancestors, but not ours’, says Singaporean columnist

Wee Kek Koon
Wee Kek Koon

Updated: 2:55pm, 20 Jul, 2018

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The 1955 Bandung Conference, a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent. Picture: Alamy The 1955 Bandung Conference, a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent. Picture: Alamy
The 1955 Bandung Conference, a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent. Picture: Alamy
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