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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
« Reply #105 on: May 20, 2022, 11:57:42 pm »
https://www.yahoo.com/news/east-timor-president-pledges-stronger-013350675.html

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East Timor’s new president pledges stronger ties with China

DILI (Reuters) - East Timorese independence figure and Nobel laureate Jose Ramos-Horta was inaugurated as the country's fifth president on Friday, pledging to dedicate his time in office to strengthen national unity and forge closer relations with China.
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Ramos-Horta also said he would continue to foster a special relationship with the United States, and advocate for East Timor to join the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Hopefully this can also contribute to bringing China and the US closer together.

Timor's friendly relations with China go way back:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-colonial_Timor

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proto-Malays from 2500 BC arrived from south China and north Indochina.[4] Timorese origin myths tell of ancestors that sailed around the eastern end of Timor arriving on land in the south. Some stories recount Timorese ancestors journeying from Malay Peninsula or the Minangkabau Highlands of Sumatra.[5]
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Contact with the outside world was via networks of foreign seafaring traders from as far as China and India that served the archipelago.
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Oral traditions of people of Wehali principality of East Timor mention their migration from Sina Mutin Malaka or "Chinese White Malacca" (part of Indianised Hindu-Buddhist Srivijaya empire) in ancient times.[7]
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Timor is mentioned in the 13th-century Chinese Zhu Fan Zhi, where it is called Ti-wu and is noted for its sandalwood. It is called Ti-men in the History of Song of 1345.

So what disrupted it all? Take a guess:

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Beginning in the early sixteenth century, European colonialists—the Dutch in the island's west, and Portuguese in the east—would divide the island, isolating the East Timorese from the histories of the surrounding archipelago.[8]

This is our common enemy.

See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/east-timor/
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