Kuomintang when denaturalization of the Chinese in Taiwan was denied
after Taiwan was returned to China by Japan immediately after WW11. A
similar attitude is upheld by the PRC when handling denaturalization
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of
the Chinese in Hong Kong. It is not surprising to find that the Hong
Kong formula reached in the PRC-UK Memorandum in 1984, is identical to
the formula reached by Ching and the Dutch in 1909. Under this
formula, both Ching and the PRC insisted on denying the validity of
foreign denaturalization of Chinese. But for practical reasons, the
are
Chinese in Indonesia in 1909, and the Chinese in Hong Kong in 1984,
allowed to be protected either by the Dutch or Ching, or both, in a
third country, but only by Ching (or the PRC) in China.
Furthermore, historically, it is interesting to see that all three
regimes, the Ching, the Kuomintang and the Communist, have been tested
by the issue of denaturalization of the Chinese in Indonesia. All
proved to be unwilling to accept
denaturalization of Chinese, as a
symbol of their protection of overseas Chinese. Ching was pressed by
high-ranking officers and by the Chinese community in Indonesia to take
a position of non-recognition of denaturalization of the Chinese by the
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Dutch. The result was to bring an enactment of the first
Law of China.
the
Nationality
over
The Kuomintang was pressed directly to declare its position
denaturalization of Chinese in Indonesia while it was in control of
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China before 1949. Later, it was forced to declare its position again,
while the Communists and Indonesia made an attempt to solve the problem
of dual citizenship of the Chinese. The Kuomintang made it clear; it
politics against its supporters,
condemned the Communists for playing politics
without
considering the interests of overseas Chinese. It claimed it
interest for overseas Chinese to maintain the
was in the best
citizenship
of their residing country, while China maintains a free
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