supreme golden pupil

Supreme Golden Eyes - Chapter 3 (A Dangerous Breath

Speaking of it, the relationship between China and Indonesia is very deep, and it can be traced back to at least 1000 years ago. 【 】

As early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, many Chinese people traveled across the ocean and came to Palin State on the Indonesian island of Sumatra to cultivate (at that time, a large part of northern Vietnam was under the jurisdiction of Jiaozhou. It is not too difficult to pass from the Han Dynasty. Along the coastline During the Tang and Song Dynasties, many people fled to Southeast Asia due to political reasons; and during the Song and Yuan Dynasties, many Song Dynasty survivors went into exile overseas, and when they arrived in Nanyang, such as Zheng Sixiao, a survivor of the Song Dynasty, fled to Java, Indonesia; The situation at the end of the period was similar. In the Ming Dynasty, Prince Fu and Prince Tang also crossed the sea to Java. It was also roughly the same in the Qing Dynasty. After Kangxi recovered Taiwan, some soldiers of the Zheng Keshuang regime, who were unwilling to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, also took ships from Taiwan to Java.

In addition to these people who immigrated for political reasons, there are also many people who left their hometowns for other reasons.

After the Ming Dynasty, due to the budding of coastal capitalism and the development of foreign trade, land annexation became more and more serious, and social conflicts within China became more and more serious. Many bankrupt farmers and handicraftsmen along the southeast coast crossed the sea to make a living.Afterwards, some Chinese migrated from China for various reasons. The main components of them were businessmen, fishermen, overseas students and so on.These people are mainly men. After coming to Indonesia, some of them intermarried with the locals and took root.

After the Dutch East India Company occupied Jakarta, all industries were in urgent need of labor. They took a fancy to the hardworking Chinese people, so they did everything possible to attract Chinese immigrants, and even resorted to banditry by unscrupulous means, sending armed ships to the coast of China to plunder the population and occupy the Taiwan, after Zheng Chenggong expelled them, the Dutch's ambition for Taiwan has never been extinguished, and it was not until Shi Lang defeated Taiwan that they gradually retreated back.But by this time, the Chinese who had been taken captive by them were too numerous to count, and it was difficult to count them.

To be honest, before the arrival of Western colonists, the Chinese and Indonesian residents had no major disputes, and it can even be said that they lived in harmony.But later, the Dutch colonists selected a small number of upper-class Chinese and upper-class aborigines as their agents to carry out economic plunder, but many Chinese who were engaged in small businesses and peddlers were given a bad name.

In order to transfer the anti-Dutch sentiment of the local people to the Chinese, the Dutch colonial rulers continued to provoke the relationship between the aborigines and the Chinese in order to reap the benefits of the fishermen.It was also from that time that Indonesian Chinese became the scapegoat for the uninterrupted group interest struggle in the Indonesian political situation.

In the 60s, after long-term planning and preparation, Indonesian President Sukarno issued a strict decree, announcing strict restrictions on Chinese business activities; banning all business activities of Chinese in areas below the county level; forcing Chinese to end small businesses and hawkers, and must leave the county The following areas, and thus set off the most serious anti-Chinese wave since independence.

After entering the Suharto era, in order to get rid of the economic difficulties, the Indonesian government relaxed some business restrictions on Chinese (Indonesians are very lazy, because the local environment is hot and humid, and fruits and other products are very rich, even if they don’t work They will not starve to death, so Indonesians have very poor enterprising spirit, which is no match for hardworking Chinese people. Therefore, Indonesian monkeys may live more comfortably in a feudal agricultural society, but not in a modern commercial society. ), but implemented a series of more stringent policies of compulsory assimilation politically, strangling the rights and interests of Indonesian citizens of Chinese descent in other fields and strangling their equal citizenship.

For example, Chinese-Americans are prohibited from participating in politics and the army; Chinese-language schools are closed; Chinese-Americans are restricted from entering universities; the use of Chinese is strictly prohibited;They blatantly violated the United Nations Declaration and Convention on Human Rights, seriously violated the basic human rights of ethnic Chinese, and further antagonized the Chinese ethnic group with other ethnic groups.

Since Suharto came to power, there have been more than a dozen anti-Chinese incidents, large and small.Since the foundation of the Suharto regime has not been shaken, every anti-Chinese incident is only controlled as a political means, and has not been further expanded to shake the regime. After the goal is achieved, it subsides, and then uses Chinese to revitalize the economy. When this happens, do it the same way.So repeated, tried and tested.

To put it bluntly, the status of the Chinese in Indonesia is that of pigs raised in captivity. They are slaughtered once when they are fattened up, and then they are given a period of time to recuperate. They will be slaughtered when they are fattened again. They have never been treated equally!

The sad thing is that during Suharto's 30-odd years in power, the majority of Chinese people have become accustomed to this, and they are completely unaware that they have been stifled for their civil rights and the long-awaited political crisis that is related to their own survival.

Ordinarily, if this peaceful day continues, the Indonesian Chinese will not suffer too much except being slaughtered as fattened pigs a few times, but it is a pity that since the middle of last year, they have swept across Asia The financial turmoil broke out, and the Indonesian government suffered an unprecedented impact. The population of extreme poverty in Indonesia increased sharply to 8000 million, accounting for 40.00% of the total population. The accumulated anger was about to explode.It will undoubtedly be accompanied by strikes, demonstrations and riots, which will seriously threaten the rule of the Suharto regime.

Under such circumstances, the Suharto regime naturally considered directing volcanic lava to the Chinese who had the least political power in Indonesian society.The Chinese are the exhaust valve of the Suharto regime. Over the years, whenever public dissatisfaction boils to burst the society, this exhaust valve will be activated, so that the political and economic rule of the Suharto family can avoid the impact and continue to exist go down.

This is the darkest, most secretive and necessary link in Suharto's ruling structure, and its significance is the same as that of Hitler's massacre of Jews.Only by turning class contradictions into ethnic contradictions, turning class anger into racial hatred, and at the same time propagating the Chinese as so-called residents who do not believe in Islam, hateful heretics, can an exploitative and oppressive social structure exist.

In this sense, racism is actually an integral building block of any class domination regime.Even the United States, which loves to flaunt democracy, uses racial discrimination against blacks and yellows as the exhaust valve for its social stability.The Ku Klux Klan and the extreme anti-Chinese forces in Indonesia are essentially the same thing. The mainstream of the ruling group usually looks down on them, but they deeply understand the importance of the existence of extreme right-wing forces.

This kind of statement may seem a little too dark to some people, but in fact, the anti-Chinese riots in Indonesia were not without warning. Dating back to the violent cases against the Chinese that occurred intensively at the end of [-], the topic of race has been a hot topic in the Indonesian media recently (this is why Hu Gang and Wang Rui were able to detect the large-scale unrest in Indonesia).

What's more, in order to divert the incompetence of the Asian financial turmoil (the depreciation of the Indonesian rupiah is the most severe of all the countries affected by the financial crisis), the Suharto government has even publicly hinted many times that it is the Indonesian Chinese who participated in this crisis. The wealth of Indonesians was plundered during the financial crisis, trying to shift people's attention to racial conflicts.

Suharto's son-in-law, the commander of the Indonesian Army's Strategic Reserve Forces, Lieutenant General Prabowo, who once served as the commander of the special forces, considered the difficulties faced by the entire family after Suharto was about to leave office, and wanted to re-establish the military government. Introduced into Indonesia to continue the Suharto family's ruling power in Indonesia, so this riot was single-handedly planned.

Although it has not yet been put into practice, rumors of riots have spread throughout Jakarta. In the past few days, the Indonesian government has reported that President Suharto will go to Egypt to attend an international conference in a few days. The generals also "just happened" to gather in East Java to attend a ceremony. Many observers from international human rights organizations stationed in Jakarta and international media reporters were sensitive to the danger, and Chinese officials were no exception.

However, it is one thing to know that riots are likely to occur, and it is another thing to deal with them and whether they can use their strength.

As mentioned earlier, the Chinese in Indonesia are politically divided into pro-communist faction and pro-Taiwan faction. After the establishment of New China, the Chinese government did not forget the Chinese who hid in Indonesia and other Southeast Asian countries due to war and other factors. At that time, the State Council Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Premier Zhou even personally went to Nanyang to invite these Chinese to return to China, and even promised to arrange jobs and housing, which is almost better than the current returnee scientists!

It's a pity that, except for some pro-communist Chinese, the vast majority of Chinese at that time were unwilling to give up their local wealth and return to China, which was waiting for prosperity.

In fact, speaking strictly speaking, the Chinese government has no position to take action on the Indonesian anti-Chinese incident. In 1965, the chairman only made such a big reaction out of righteous indignation. In fact, The Chinese government does not have the power to manage these Chinese. This is not what many people think is weak, but it is based on facts and legal principles.

Because, the Chinese in Indonesia are actually equivalent to the British who arrived in the Americas when the New World was discovered and became American citizens. They are out-and-out Indonesian citizens, not Chinese citizens. Premier Zhou can personally invite them to return to China. It's the end of benevolence and righteousness. The Chinese government can control them for one or two generations, but it can't control them for generations, right?

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