The returnees and dependents of overseas Chinese were all in the same boat. On the one hand, they wouldn't dare risk trying to contact their relatives overseas for fear of how such contact would be interpreted. On the other hand, with the free world and the communist block fighting the Cold War, America and the countries of Southeast Asia all prohibited people, goods and money from going to China.
一方面他們和所有華僑僑眷一樣，為了「劃清界限」，誰也不敢冒險與海外親友通信；一方面自由世界與共產世界正處於冷戰，美國及東南亞國家對中共實施禁運，人員、貨物、匯款都不能往來。