Asian Cold war question

How can we get this to happen: the USSR and the Warsaw pact +India+ Vietnam + Laos + Mongolia vs China + Pakistan + Burma + Kampucha + Afghanistan.
 
After the Sino Soviet split... heats could have heat up big time.
What if there was a incident similar to Korean Air in 1983 except it was
with a Chinese airplane or vice versa, a Soviet civilian plane shot over Chinese territory... Other line of thought... Border issues in Manchuria maybe?

What did you have in mind?
 
After the Sino Soviet split... heats could have heat up big time.
What if there was a incident similar to Korean Air in 1983 except it was
with a Chinese airplane or vice versa, a Soviet civilian plane shot over Chinese territory... Other line of thought... Border issues in Manchuria maybe?

What did you have in mind?
I was thinking in 1979 you have the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia, the Chinese move in to take revenge for that and they are more suceessful than what they were in this time line and in response the USSR makes a deal with India that they will help them out in Pakistan if they help they out against the Chinese and help assisst the Veitnamese.
 
Conceivably you could have this by getting the 1957 Anti-Party coup against Khrushchev to succeed. With a Stalinist (probably first Bulganin, then Molotov) at the helm of the USSR, the Sino-Soviet split is avoided. The KGB embarks on a sustained campaign of subversion and intrigue that slowly drags India and Pakistan into the Soviet orbit, while Burma succumbs to a leftist military coup d'etat and aligns itself with the Communist cause. Afghanistan is invaded to complete the puzzle.

That however is quite an implausible scenario. The pattern generally went that if a nation succumbed to Communism, its surrounding environs would end up immeasurably strengthened against contagion by the US. With North Vietnam growing dominant in Indochina by 1975, Thailand was strengthened; by the time the Iron Curtain was raised, the US was thinking about forming NATO; when it looked like India was leaning too close to the Soviet Union, Washington 'tilted' toward Pakistan.
Well thanks for that I never considered that reason as to why it never happened.
 
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