ABSTRACT
Peking's support of armed revolutionary movements is resented and feared by the non-Communist governments of the region. It has been a major factor in delaying the normalization of state relations between some of these governments and Peking. Peking's practice of supporting "just struggles" in Southeast Asia while it simultaneously conducts "state relations" with the government being struggled against has caused the People's Republic of China (PRC) to be accused of having two policies—party policy and government policy. The Malaysian government hoped that its establishment of diplomatic relations with the PRC would undermine the Communist Party of Malaysia’s ethnocentric appeal to Malaysians of Chinese origin. Despite Peking's present emphasis on state relations, Chinese support of insurgencies in Southeast Asia will continue. A brief look at the state of these insurgencies may shed some light on the extent and nature of such support and on its effect on Sino-Southeast Asian relations.
