As one of those pesky millennials pushing for reformed policy toward the PRC, my policy wish list includes greater recognition of & caution toward the "blood and soil" discourse weaved into Chinese nationalism and PRC/CCP influence efforts.

The world would rightly cringe if...

a Western European government(s) popularized loyalty among European-heritage people in the US, Canada, or elsewhere to the "motherland" or the "white race."

Likewise...

it would be shocking if a group of white American students in Germany screamed "race traitor" at white Germans protesting the abuse of migrants in the US.

Yet it seems to attract little attention that PRC & United Front propaganda advocates for loyalty of 华侨 to the 祖国. Or...

when PRC students in Australia or Canada call ethnic Chinese 汉奸 for expressing solidarity with pro-democracy activists in HK.

Or that the PRC government couches its right to Taiwan, in part, within the framework of a racial claim to the people of Taiwan.

The world is paying greater attention to a more influential China. But it changes the conversation if the public understands the PRC as a one-party authoritarian state that explicitly uses racial politics domestically and internationally.