Apart from racial friction and envy aroused by the affluence of the Chinese, at that time the Chinese Communists were vigorously promoting their policy of exporting revolution, assisting Southeast Asian Communist guerrillas to wrest political power, which meant that resident Chinese found it difficult to escape the suspicion that they were subversives.
除了種族摩擦與華人富裕、易遭忌恨外，當時中共力行「革命輸出」，扶植東南亞共黨游擊隊爭奪政權，也使得當地華人難脫「顛覆分子」的嫌疑。