Chapter 676: Amendment
Mr. Liu's words shocked the bigwigs of the Politburo, but Mr. Liu was not bad at all, although not every overseas Chinese still has a strong sense of nationality and is willing to do something for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. However, from the mainstream point of view, overseas Chinese are still a huge force that the mainland can rely on, and they have made great efforts and even shed blood and sacrificed their lives to resist foreign humiliation since Xinhai.
Therefore, no matter in terms of historical contributions or future development, it is necessary to fulfill the responsibility of protecting the mainland of the motherland to the overseas Chinese, whether in terms of Conghua or blood, these Chinese who are working hard overseas are still our out-and-out compatriots, and the rapid development of the mainland's reform and opening up in the past few decades, the investment of overseas Chinese occupies a large part, it can be said that without the huge influx of overseas Chinese, the development of the mainland will be a different scene.
These bigwigs who can sit in the Politburo, of course, know these things well, and after several consecutive wars, the committee members who have begun to become more and more confident in the domestic military strength cannot tolerate a small Filipino maid jumping out like this and bullying the Chinese to the point that they have no power to fight back.
Therefore, everyone was willing to agree on the same opinion and was ready to formally intervene in this matter, but when everyone discussed how to do it, it was suddenly discovered that from the legal point of view, we could not find a suitable excuse to intervene.
Because our nationality law excludes the option of dual nationality, these overseas Chinese, from the current nationality law, choose the local nationality and lose their national nationality, which means that there is no legal connection with us.
The Nansha Islands have always been our inherent territory, and the historical classics have irrefutably proved the ownership of these islands, so we have sent troops to be famous and be able to stand in the name of righteousness.
But now the matter of overseas Chinese has shackled the hands and feet of this criterion, and everyone has no reason to interfere in substance, resulting in the teacher's namelessness, and everyone feels a little helpless in the face of this problem for a while.
You must know that the US military is still heavily stationed near Manila and has no name for justice, so how can the US exert strong pressure on Filipino maids to urge them to effectively protect their obligations to the Chinese and overseas Chinese in China?
"Dual citizenship is a form of tacit recognition that is generally accepted by many countries internationally." In this case, Wu Shusen, a member of the Politburo with a master's degree in law, said, "The United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Australia, Spain, Italy and other developed countries in Europe and the United States respect the choice of nationality of their citizens in their place of residence, and do not recognize the loss of their own nationality due to the acquisition of the nationality of the country where they reside." ”
"This acquiescence has played a very important role in enabling the citizens of these countries to win fair treatment in the country of residence, and on the other hand, our nationality law has explicitly abolished the treatment of dual nationality for overseas Chinese, and its third article stipulates that the People's Republic of China does not recognize the dual nationality of citizens of the country, which is mainly a compromise policy made during a specific period, which played a certain role in opening up the diplomatic situation at that time."
"However, this regulation has caused our overseas Chinese to lose one of their greatest basic rights, and to lose the most important protective umbrella from the mainland of the motherland, so that they are often treated unfairly and persecuted in the places where they live abroad, but we have been completely powerless about it before. As we face today, we can't even find the right thing to do. ”
"Therefore, I believe that for the sake of the well-being of the 80 million overseas Chinese, it is necessary for us to adjust this unreasonable regulation, adopt the mainstream practice of treating dual nationality with other countries in the world, cancel Article 3, and recognize the dual nationality of overseas Chinese in disguised form by tacit recognition, so as to solve the most important legal issue for us to protect overseas Chinese now and in the future."
What Wu Shusen said was somewhat professional for other committee members, but it did not prevent everyone from understanding the connotation behind his proposal: In order to solve the legal issue of protecting overseas Chinese once and for all, it is necessary to revise our current nationality law and tacitly recognize the existence of dual nationality.
For the majority of committee members, this issue is not a problem, in today's dual nationality is no longer a big obstacle for our country, our strong economic strength is already an existence that most countries in the world cannot ignore, plus the return of Taiwan, we do not have to worry about the implementation of dual citizenship will lead to our diplomatic passivity.
On the contrary, if the recognition of dual nationality of overseas Chinese is changed, it will greatly enhance the political status and influence of overseas Chinese, which is a very beneficial thing for the development of China's diplomacy in the long run, just as the Jews of the world are to the world, so that the overseas Chinese community can form a huge interest group and influence the relations between the countries where they are located.
Although in the short term, there may be a strong backlash in ASEAN countries with tens of millions of overseas Chinese, once they understand that this matter is irreversible, then they will effectively change the previous discriminatory policies against overseas Chinese, and no ASEAN country can ignore the existence of this behemoth.
After all, the process of economic exchanges with the same clan will be more effective and convenient, so in the long run, it is also a win-win thing for the host country, but to achieve this process, it is not possible to achieve it overnight in three or five years.
With such a foundation, everyone quickly agreed to submit to the National People's Congress the necessary amendments to this law, and in the face of such a huge change, when the draft of the revision of the nationality law proposed by the Politburo came out, it was quickly approved by the overwhelming majority of the people, and the people in China did not care about the issue of dual nationality, they only learned from the experts, so that we could help overseas Chinese in the name of justice, and that was enough, as for the process, that was what the experts did.
For overseas Chinese, this news is as shocking as the groundbreaking, and many overseas Chinese even burst into tears when they hear the news, because for them, when they have national nationality again, they have the protection from their home country, and they really have the strongest protection overseas, and they are no longer rootless duckweed to be bullied.
In order to show their support for this new law that is beneficial to overseas Chinese, the tens of millions of overseas Chinese support signature campaign launched by overseas Chinese has collected millions of overseas Chinese signature faxes through the Internet within a few days! You must know that this is not a vote on the Internet, which can get a huge number of false clicks in a variety of ways, but the actual signatures of overseas Chinese, a large part of which also have their own bright red fingerprints.
This fact illustrates how popular this amendment bill is.
The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) passed an amendment to the new Nationality Law with unprecedented speed, and according to this new law, the state will no longer enforce Article 3 of the original Nationality Law, which does not recognize the dual nationality of citizens of the country, thus clearing the way for overseas Chinese to have dual nationality.
Based on this new bill, the Chinese side has made a solemn statement to the countries of the South China Sea:
1. Demand that the local people punish the murderers of overseas Chinese; 2. For the victimized overseas Chinese, the Philippine State must compensate the families of the victims; 3. Overseas Chinese injured in various violent incidents must be properly treated by the local government and given disability allowances; 4. The property losses suffered by local overseas Chinese must be compensated in full; 5. The local zhèng fǔ treats overseas Chinese who have become the nationality of the country equally, and enjoys the same rights as the locals, and shall not discriminate.
If the above-mentioned reasonable demands do not receive a strong response and effective safeguard measures, we reserve the right to take all measures to protect the legitimate rights and interests of our Chinese and overseas Chinese.