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“About 7 million Chinese live in Indonesia, a nation of 200 million. Many are shopkeepers, traders and businessmen. Some have become very wealthy, to the point where the Chinese as a group are reputed to control about 70 percent of corporate wealth, although they make up only 3 percent of the population.<\/p>\nNew York Times, ‘Singapore and Malaysia Watch With Alarm : Indonesia’s Neighbors Fear Wave of Refugees’, Feb. 11, 1998<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nOr is it because overseas Chinese are easy scapegoats for a nation’s troubles?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I managed to borrow George Yeo’s book Musings: Series One from the library in Singapore and it taught me three things: Who is George Yeo? And why am I reading his book? For non-Singaporeans, George Yeo’s name might not ring a bell. Succinctly, he’s a “Teochew Chinese, a Roman Catholic and a native Singaporean.” Wikipedia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farfromchina.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farfromchina.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farfromchina.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farfromchina.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farfromchina.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/farfromchina.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"https:\/\/farfromchina.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farfromchina.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farfromchina.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farfromchina.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farfromchina.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}