China in northern Vietnam

Challenge: with a POD anytime in the late Qing (so opening it up to the late 19th century), have China occupying the Nanyue/Annam regions of northern Vietnam, while claiming it as Chinese soil and not just as a PRC police action during the Vietnam war sort of thing.
 
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Yeah any intervention of China into Indochina late in the Qing dynasty means war with France. This actually happened in the French-Sino war of 1884-1885 where France took control of, yes, North Vietnam.

They had their eyes on the region since the 18th century, good trade, good missionary work. They ain't going to let that go to waste by Chinese.
 
Yeah any intervention of China into Indochina late in the Qing dynasty means war with France. This actually happened in the French-Sino war of 1884-1885 where France took control of, yes, North Vietnam.

They had their eyes on the region since the 18th century, good trade, good missionary work. They ain't going to let that go to waste by Chinese.

Understandable, but I wonder why FDR was offering the whole of Indochina to the KMT. Just possessing the north (Red River Delta, etc.) is a fraction of that total colony, but it’s also one of the most populated and densest areas.
 
IIRC, I think FDR's offer was for China to just oversee Indochina for a while, which they actually did (in North Vietnam).
 
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