![[OC] Chinese economic influence in Southeast Asia](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/ki8on26eg4we1-1024x777.png "[OC] Chinese economic influence in Southeast Asia")
Overseas Chinese business networks constitute the single most dominant private business groups outside of East Asia. The map shows the bamboo network in South East Asia depicting the share of economic activity done by Han Chinese people and their population. Data taken from the ASEAN-KOREA Center, population estimates are the same as on the Wikipedia page.
Posted by Former_Juggernaut_32
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I don’t understand what the two percents mean.
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What does any of this mean
Data is in fact not beautiful. What the fuck even is this
This isn’t beautiful. This is misrepresented data. Take Singapore for instance. I’m Singaporean. I’m chinese ethnically. 75% of the population is ethnically chinese, however we have no relationship to China.
What counts as economic influence anyway? Indonesian Chinese are extremely rich due to wealth accumulation during the Colonial Era, not recently rich. For Malaysia, there are a few large and powerful ethnically chinese families who are vehemently opposed to China’s influence.
I don’t know what this is supposed to be.
96% of the Singaporean economy is Chinese? 99% of the Laos economy is Chinese?
That’s clearly not true, even with no research. WTF is this infographic?
These numbers don’t seem particularly interpretable, and the visuals definitely aren’t. I’m assuming the top percent is what dictates color.
But you really shouldn’t use a black background, with the darkest colors representing the higher percent. Shades of green are also not easily differentiable to begin with.
This is misinformation, the ethnic population in these countries have little to no relation to the mainland Chinese
Being a global trading hub, seeing Singapore with 96% of the economy with Chinese influence is… Laughable.
OP forgot to add Taiwan to the list because most of them are Han Chinese and are definitely getting help from China Chinese networks for their businesses there. This data is as useful as that comparison.
This idea of a “Bamboo network” throughout SE Asia is not plausible given many of the different Chinese ethnic groups don’t like each other and unlikely work together. This is more about the attempt economic influence of mainland China which should have been included in the map. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_network](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_network)
Original source: Department of International Area Studies, Pukyung National University, Busan (staff or student? – can’t tell).
The original presentation was all about the history of Chinese migration and nothing about the so-called “Bamboo Network”
[https://web.archive.org/web/20230330205843/https://www.aseankorea.org/aseanZone/downloadFile2.asp?boa_filenum=2722](https://web.archive.org/web/20230330205843/https://www.aseankorea.org/aseanZone/downloadFile2.asp?boa_filenum=2722)
https://preview.redd.it/taxzfp4mk4we1.png?width=810&format=png&auto=webp&s=34f32392c4a3ad25045dd3cd7014148a864554cb