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"hua chiao" or 华侨 means "oversea Chinese" also interpreted as Chinese with roots from China.    

I knew many Indonesian Chinese actually ran back to China during anti-Chinese riots and violence during Sukarno and Suharto times. China set up a piece of land on Hainan Island to let them built their homes.  

China has been benevolent to the oversea Chinese. Also during time of disaster in foreign land, China sent their relief planes to pick up their citizens, they also help people of Chinese origin to include in their planes.   

If you happened to be in such disaster in foreign countries, would you take a ride in their planes?   

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When we were touring Hainan, we came across a place that looked like a thai village. Tour guide told us those people were second, third generation thai Chinese that no longer have any connection with their hometown in China.  During the racial conflict, if not for the Chinese government to take them back, those people could have been killed.  The Chinese government gave them a piece of land in Hainan to develop. That was why those houses and temples there looked exactly like those in Thailand.