diaspora
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Between Nations: The Chinese Diaspora in an Era of Geopolitical Tension
As geopolitical tensions between the United States and China intensify, the Chinese diaspora has increasingly become the subject of scrutiny within narratives of national security, influence, and suspicion. However, this framing blurs the complex and contested nature of diaspora identity. Public discourse—especially in the Western world—has begun to frame the…
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An Insignificant Sympathy: Assessing Overseas Chinese Influence Operations in Malaysia
Over the last two decades, analysts have increasingly described the PRC’s “Qiaowu” as the “largest diasporic influence operation in history,” with increasingly alarmist examples of the Overseas Chinese manipulating local politics in Europe, the US, and Australia. In the case of Malaysia, the Overseas Chinese exhibit contradictory tendencies. On one…
Sino-Southeast Initiative 