re: #137 Feline Fearless Leader

Well, cultural Malays have darker skin, so that’s probably explains some of the prejudice. Upper class Chinese look down on darker skinned Chinese, especially if they are “peasants” from the countryside.

China is now investing heavily in Africa and the Pacific region, for strategic reasons. But I wonder if some impetus comes from a desire to “take up the Chinese man’s burden,” to paraphrase Kipling, and Sinocize those poor benighted countries.