The Relationship between Overseas Chinese and China

Relationship between Overseas Chinese and China: Overseas Chinese are overseas immigrants from China. Based on the same blood relationship and culture, some overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia participated in the historical process of China to varying degrees, and China paid special attention to their overseas survival and development. Among the overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia, although they are citizens of China, they often live overseas, while China people are already foreign citizens. Therefore, as long as it has relations with China, it will inevitably cross national boundaries and be influenced by a series of international factors. Among all the international factors that affect the relationship between overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia and China, the international system formed by the interaction between China and Southeast Asian countries is very important, because it has the most far-reaching and lasting influence on the relationship between overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia and China.

From the perspective of the international system, the relationship between overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia and China belongs to the unit interaction within the system, which is the result of the unit behavior within the system. According to structuralism theory, structure is the key factor that restricts the behavior of units. Therefore, the influence of the international system on the unit interaction is accomplished through the shaping of the unit behavior by the structure.

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The relationship between overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia and China is not only influenced by the international system constructed by China and the countries where overseas Chinese are located, but also not directly exerted by the system itself. Instead, it is finally completed by shaping the behavior of overseas Chinese in China and Southeast Asia and their countries through the system structure. As for the constraints of architecture on the behavior of these three people, they are all manifested as "structural choice" on the basis of rationality. The relationship between overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia and China is fundamentally the result of rational interaction between China, overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia and host countries based on their own interests and the structural logic of the international system.