“There are tens of millions of Chinese overseas compatriots
, all of whom are members of one big Chinese family … they did not forget their fatherland, they did not forget their ancestral province, they did not forget that in their body there is Chinese blood.”
Xi Jinping, speaking on June 7, 2014, at the Seventh Conference of the World Federation of Huaqiao Huaren Associations
Amid the shifting dynamics of changing regimes in recent centuries, Chinese migrants spread across the region to escape poverty or seek opportunity – becoming the 50 million “huaren” or “overseas Chinese,” those who are of Chinese ethnic descent but do not hold Chinese citizenship. Concentrated especially in Southeast Asia, where they account for more than three-quarters of the $369 billion in wealth held by Southeast Asian billionaires, their lives have become closely interlinked with the Chinese state and their economic power has made them a key target of Chinese Communist Power (CCP) soft
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