AHC: More unstable South east Asia

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to make South East Asia riven more by disputes and a lack of political stability. Bonus if you make it as volatile as the Balkans or the Middle East, and for Singapore as an Israel analogue.
 
Hmm....perhaps outright French colonization is limited to southern Vietnam, so we have a French Cochin-China (is that what they actually called it, or just Cochin?), a buffer of pro-French satellite states around it (probably including the Khmer, Hmong, Montagnards, etc.), and independent powers remaining in the northern parts of OTL's French Indochina.

The smaller French territories are colonized more heavily, so we have a significantly more Christian, Francophone, and Francophile cultural zone in OTL southern Vietnam.

A Southeast Asian Algeria? French attempts to retain some coastal ports as little Hong Kongs? Race wars between "true" Viets and "mongrels"?

Things could get really spicy.
 
If you want to extend the fun, perhaps butterflies from a continued small-scale French presence in the region lead to the Dutch trying to retain chunks of the Dutch East Indies.

Balkanized Indonesia on top of Balkanized continental Southeast Asia? A large-scale return of piracy in the archipelago?

This means nobody is going to try to "crush Malaysia," which could lead to continued Malaysian moves on Singapore. Singapore is already very well-armed for its size and even has the draft. Perhaps one or more Malaysian-Singapore wars?
 
It's a huge work in progress, but i heard of this timeline called Divided we Stand where Indonesia balkanizes into a dozen or so states. I think the link is somewhere in my signature Shameless promotion, I know lol:rolleyes:
 
It's a huge work in progress, but i heard of this timeline called Divided we Stand where Indonesia balkanizes into a dozen or so states. I think the link is somewhere in my signature Shameless promotion, I know lol:rolleyes:

Taking a look at it now. Thanks for the post.
 
So a bloodier Asian decolonization? What could Uncle Sam think about this?

Well, the U.S. backed France in OTL in Indochina even though Ho Chi Minh copy-pasted the U.S. Declaration of Independence and in TTL, France's moral case is stronger--Cochin is heavily Gallified, with a large number of ethnic French and even larger numbers of culturally French Vietnamese and mixed-blood people. The peoples of Cochin might want to remain ruled by France or even have an independent Francophone state rather than be ruled by the Nguyen Dynasty, which has a history of persecuting Christians, among other things.

TTL's version of the Geneva Accords might be an attempt to fairly divide SE Asia between France (or some Asian French Rhodesia if necessary--that'd be even MORE unstable) and indigenous powers like Annam (northern Vietnam) and maybe a Black Flag Chinese dynasty ruling over Laos.
 
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