China, a client country, has changed three masters, but still does not forget China. Chinese characters are still used on coins! Where is it?

In the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao mentioned a country in the South China Sea in his overseas geography masterpiece Zhufanzhi, which is rich in sandalwood, which is a raw material that people in the Central Plains often like.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the leaders here also paid tribute to Emperor China, paying tribute to sandalwood and becoming a small country attached to China.

This is East Timor. This island country is located at the easternmost tip of Nusa Tenggara Islands in Southeast Asia, bordering Indonesia in the west and Australia across the sea in the south, with a land area of 14874 square kilometers.

Speaking of East Timor, we have to mention one of our family members, Macau, which was unified only 19 years ago.

What does Macao have to do with this? In other words, Portugal, an autocratic imperialist country in Europe, once had only two colonies in the Far East, one was East Timor and the other was Macau. In the past, the Governor of East Timor in Portugal was usually the Governor of Macao in Portugal. The sky is high and the emperor is far away. What a great location! The situation of one person holding two positions continued until the beginning of the 20th century. Around 1940, because the mainstream religions in Macau and East Timor are of the same origin, there are often missionaries who love to go out more than traveling frogs to and from Portugal, China, Macau and East Timor for missionary activities. This has also affected more and more China people to live and settle down in East Timor.

Japan occupied East Timor in 1942 and hired Indonesians to form a "black column" to suppress the resistance of the local people. In East Timor with a population of 650,000, 50,000 people actually died!

By the 1970s, industrious China businessmen had spread the "canteen" of the first "god shop" in the universe to every town in Timor-Leste. However, at that time, the most profitable coffee in East Timor was always in the hands of the Portuguese, and China businessmen were not allowed to have the opportunity to profit from it.

1974, the world national liberation movement swept the world, and East Timor, a little Mazar, a short young man, also planned to fight for freedom. Unexpectedly, he escaped the control of Portugal but did not escape the dispute among his own people: he was an internal struggle among his own people! When China's three major political parties were in a desperate situation, they took the opportunity to send troops to "help" them while watching the drooling Indonesian ass unable to sit on the stool, and then "hey hey" smiled and said that East Timor was their 27th province in Indonesia. Oh, my god, you still have it for fun.

What about our country? Naturally, we have always insisted on helping the people of East Timor in their anti-colonial struggle, and we have helped them many times before and after. Such as sending civilian police and officials to participate in UN peacekeeping operations in East Timor, providing donations worth 65.438 billion dollars to East Timor through the Red Cross, and directly providing 30 million yuan to Gai Lou. The "master" of East Timor? The "master" of East Timor can only be the East Timorese people themselves! At the same time, East Timor also has feelings. Gusm? o, the leader of its independence movement, visited China many times and made it clear that he would establish diplomatic relations with China as soon as he became independent.

The bravest thing Timor-Leste has done is to take a stand on the issue of Taiwan Province Province. On April 17, 2002, Chen Shui-bian, the then Taiwan Province provincial authority, called East Timor, and later expressed his hope to "establish diplomatic relations" with it, but East Timor refused to do so in person. On May 20, Timor-Leste issued a communique saying: "There is only one China in the world, the government of People's Republic of China (PRC) is the sole legal government representing the whole of China, and Taiwan Province Province is an inalienable part of the territory of China." Well said!

This "dependent country" that once provided sandalwood to China in ancient times has changed three "owners" but still does not forget China. Up to now, clear Chinese characters are still printed on the banknotes in circulation.

Today, East Timor is still struggling with the trend of the times in the status quo of poverty and backwardness, and many people assert that it is "the poorest country in the world". No matter "poor" or "rich", I only hope that the future development of the two countries will be better and better.