https://www.scmp.com/rss/502359/feed Wu Xiaoan is a professor of history at Peking University and director of its Centre for the Study of Chinese Overseas. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com How China handles its diaspora receives greater scrutiny than the diaspora issues of other countries, such as India, Israel and Ireland. With an estimated population of 60 million ethnic Chinese abroad, the group is a global phenomenon. Beijing is in the unique and complicated position of being intimately identified with its diaspora to the extent that both are sometimes treated as an inseparable whole or mistaken one for the other. But a primary consideration that guides diaspora policy is the... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3031624/huaren-or-huaqiao-beijing-respects-difference-and-not-coercing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3031624/huaren-or-huaqiao-beijing-respects-difference-and-not-coercing?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 07 Oct 2019 01:30:06 +0000