Chinese collaborators, as well as to taking back economic power from the
dominant forces in many economic sectors,
Chinese who had become
especially in import and export trades.
In facing these crises, the
Kuomintang found jus sanguinis very helpful when dealing of these
Southeast Asian Chinese, because it was the most solid justification for
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her to bring up the issue of protection.
For most Southeast Asian
Chinese facing these crises, availing themselves for protection from
China had become an easy choice, since colonists were not as invincible
as before economic crises of the early 1930's and domination by Japan in
late 1930's. In fact, such as cases showed, the Kuomintang was willing
to risk diplomatic normalization with some countries, by insisting on
the legal principle of jus sanguinis in implementing its nationality
law. This happened with Thailand in the 1920's, with Vietnam in 1955,
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and with the Dutch in 1943. In the case of Vietnam, she registered
over 50,000 Chinese, who refused to be naturalized and were willing to
be resettled in Taiwan.
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After being taken over by the Communist, China still sticks to the
principle of jus sanguinis;
Indonesian
Dual-Nationalities
this is clearly
indicated in the Sino-
Treaty of 1955. In Article 8, all
children of a Chinese father, or Chinese parents who were born in
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Indonesia are PRC nationals.
Despite the fact that the Communist
regime did take the initiative to negotiate the settlement of dual
nationalities for the Chinese in Indonesia in the mid-1950's,
it was
under the basic assumption that the legal principle of jus sanguinis
would stand. Without this principle, Communist China would find no
grounds to negotiate. Other than Indonesia, several other cases showed
that the PRC is still not ready to abandon this principle, although it
may at times show flexibility. Some experts on China see the weakness
of holding onto this legal principle,
pointing out the decline in the
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