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Yes, taiwan, hong kong and singapore have played a major role in China's development. And yes, trust networks are important. One thing to note is that despjte the divergence of the diaspora culturally linguistically mandarin is commonly spoken among educated classes. Ive observed similar behaviour among tamilians overseas where an enterprising cousin builds their start up around their home village in tamil nadu. However, I think this is where the issue of class comes in. Annecdoteally, a lot of the indian diaspora come from already wealthy backgrounds which do not see the need to help each other.