There is a country in the world that has not welcomed the Japanese since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and their ancestors were from Fujian, China. As for this country, it declared its independence on May 20, 2002, and established relations with China two hours after its founding. It is East Timor!
In fact, it was originally a Portuguese colony. After independence in 1975, it was annexed by Indonesia. It was not until a referendum in the late 1990s that it decided to officially separate from Indonesia.
Today, East Timor has a population of 1.26 million, mainly Papuans, Malays, Polynesians, Indonesians, and Chinese. These people generally belong to the group of the Austronesian language family.
Through research by linguistics, archeology, molecular biologists and other scientists, it has been proven that the birthplace of the Austronesian language group is in Fujian, to be precise, it is Pingtan Island in Fujian.
They have similar customs and habits. They can communicate simply in the same language on completely unfamiliar islands that are far apart. Their ancestors had already opened up and inhabited all the islands in the South Pacific thousands of years before the beginning of the European age of global navigation.
This proves that thousands of years ago, the ancestors of the Austronesian family in Fujian had actually conquered the Pacific and continued to thrive. Than Columbus opened the age of human exploration and discovered the New World, the greatest navigational deeds in human history.
