I read this comment on CNA:
[What a shame to you, China: you were not able to look after your own people, n many of our forefathers had no choice but to take risks n travel afar to find livelihoods; whether they were successful or not, they remained thrifty n supported you n their families in china thru remittance; even during Japanese occupation when many sacrificed n risked their lives for China; Singapore's government has also been investing as one of China's largest inves...tors, supported china all these years, we learn your language .... and look at how a big bully you have become, keeping Singapore's 9 armor vehicles 'unlawfully' n indefinitely while immediate bow to USA when you 'rightfully' capture the drone. If you want to be a respectable giant, start behaving like one.]
And thought how true it is.
Many overseas Chinese worked hard and supported their families back in China. My father never failed to remit money to China to take care of his 5 brothers and a sister and their families. That was why when he died, he left no savings.
My mother never forgot the families in China. Despite being illiterate, she worked very hard not only to raise us but to continue her responsibility to families in China. She scrimped and saved and each end of the year, she would send a little of what she had managed to save to both her side and my father's side of the families in China.
In later years when I started work, she had more money to send. She sent money for them to build their houses to withstand typhoons. Long after the families in China began to prosper, my mother continued to send a token of her love and care for them even though they told her circumstances have greatly improved, they have prospered and no longer lacked anything and she didn't need to remit money to them anymore.
Overseas Chinese have fulfilled their responsibilities to the families they left behind in China.
Don't be a small man. Return our Terrex.
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