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>>campus+(OP)
Well, if they want to learn from the US, they should ship their manufacturing capacity and intellectual property off to their geopolitical rival for short-term monetary gain.

>>lenerd+O7
China was actually trying to heavily establish offshoring in the Philippines—but that has seemingly dried up with the increasing South China Sea tensions.

>>derefr+o9
I've never sensed any real desire for China to offshore to the Philippines, given its military alliance with the US. Maybe they dangle the prospect from time to time to try to pry the Philippines away. They have much friendlier targets in Southeast Asia, with Thailand and Malaysia at the top of the list.

>>fspeec+KX
A lot of people don't know this but one of the strengths of China is their huge expat community all across Asia.

When Dutch people arrived in what is now Indonesia in the 16th century they ran into Chinese merchants- the only locals who could keep up their mercantile endeavours.

>>Yeul+PJ1
> their huge expat community all across Asia.

The Nanyang community is not uniformly pro-PRC.

A massive portion of them have blood and political relations with HK and Taiwan, and the younger generations don't have the same level of attachment to China as older less educated Nanyang Chinese do.

You can see this in Singapore and Thailand, with Millenial/GenZ Nanyang Chinese who can't even speak Mandarin anymore and almost entirely consume Western media.

In Malaysia, PRC nationalism is stronger, but that's in reaction to horrid race relations between Chinese and Malays/Bumiputera due to policies like "Ketuanan Melayu", memories/experiences from the various race riots of the 1960s-70s, and also the insularness/otherness of the Chinese community compared to other communities in Malaysia.