changed their minds. This is why, after many years Indonesia or Vietnam
are still naturalizing and re-naturalizing Chinese in their countries.
of 1948 when the British
As for the Kuomintang
origin in British colonies, it is interesting to see that they reacted
very cautiously to the recent declaration between the PRC and the UK,
with a position somewhat similar to non-recognition. They did not
praise or condemn the PRC-UK's memorandum on Chinese British subjects;
they simply pointed out that only ROC has the legitimate right to
negotiate this remaining problem of Hong Kong. Despite this, the
Kuomintang attitude towards Chinese British subjects has always been
clear, and similar to the Ching's attitude. It was shown in the events
proposed naturalization to the Chinese in
Malaya. As indicated above, her diplomats had actively organized her
organizations in Malaya to oppose this proposal. Also, the Kuomintang
made strong efforts to deny the "unequal treaties" that her predecessor
had signed with foreign powers, and had success in recovering the
largest part of territories occupied by foreign Countries.
Kuomintang made actual moves during WWII to arrange a return of Hong
Kong sovereignty with the British government. But in her exchange of
official documents, the issue of Chinese British subjects was not
specially referred. Yet, its solution to the Chinese British subjects
would have been somewhat similar to the way it
attitude towards British subjects of Chinese
of Hong Kong probably
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claimed back Taiwan and its Chinese-Japanese subjects. Like the PRC,
the ROC has also held Chinese British subjects from Hong Kong from time
to time, when found in China's territories, and when they were
politically and economically detainable. (The British attitude towards
this detention is the same as for detention by the PRC.)
have
To conclude, we find the last three regimes in contemporary China
very similar policies against emigration and de-naturalization of
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