DBWI: Vietnam hadn't been annexed after Sino-Vietnamese War?

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With over 200,000 PLA troops deployed against the Vietnamese army in Feb 1979, I admit it's hard to see how exactly Hanoi could've prevented the toppling and annexation of Vietnam into Communist China, but what if they were able too?

Could it have prevented the communist take over of Thailand in the 80s?
 
There wouldn't have been a genocide of the Vietnamese people to suppress the insurgency for one.The insurgency was even stronger than the ones against the Americans and the French,the Chinese leadership had two choices--walk out of Vietnam or do what they did.What the Chinese did in Vietnam made the Nazis look like a joke.

China wouldn't have been an international pariah even now to some extent.I live near the Chinese Embassy and there's still monthly protests against it.

OCC:This is utterly ASB,also how the heck would this affect Thailand becoming communist?
 
OCC:This is utterly ASB,also how the heck would this affect Thailand becoming communist?

OCC:
Obviously :rolleyes:
Vietnam kicked the PLA's ass.
And I don't know..."Domino theory" perhaps?

A Chinese take over of Vietnam means Laos too, defacto and thus you have Myanmar, Cambodia, occupied Vietnam surrounding Thailand's borders. Could spark something.
 
OCC:
Obviously :rolleyes:
Vietnam kicked the PLA's ass.
And I don't know..."Domino theory" perhaps?

A Chinese take over of Vietnam means Laos too, defacto and thus you have Myanmar, Cambodia, occupied Vietnam surrounding Thailand's borders. Could spark something.
OCC:China will have their hands full dealing with Vietnam alone,they have utterly discredited themselves before other communists by their blatant aggression against another communist country.I highly doubt they would be supported by other communists.You might also throw the US and the Soviets into panic mode here.Both of them will be like WTF?!Also,ASB belongs in ASB subforum,not here....
 
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And I don't know..."Domino theory" perhaps?

But Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia were already Communist before China made its incursion in '79, so, even with the annexation, they wouldn't qualify as "dominos" falling to Communism.

But I dunno. Maybe having Vietnam joining Cambodia in the pro-China camp would get some expansionist momentum going? As opposed to just staying with the rather stagnant Brezhenev Revolutionary Express?

they have utterly discredited themselves before other communists by their blatant aggression against another communist country

Well, let's not underestimate the Sino-Soviet split. If the pro-China camp saw Moscow as the real enemy(and by their rhetoric, they did), annexing Vietnam for China might be seen as a real feather-in-the-cap.

And I'm guessing you wouldn't get much opposition from the then China-allied Yanks, either.
 
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The map of China would look far less wonky :p

On a side note the draining of China's resources was probably what led their fading economic strength compared to India. It would probably butterfly the resurgence of SEATO too.
 
Seriously, it might lead to worse US-USSR relations. Both didnt want the Chinese to invade and both 'misplaced' several million tons of supplies. Hell in the 90's the two sides nearly went to war after the aid plane was blasted by the Chinese Fishbeds.
 
Seriously, it might lead to worse US-USSR relations. Both didnt want the Chinese to invade and both 'misplaced' several million tons of supplies. Hell in the 90's the two sides nearly went to war after the aid plane was blasted by the Chinese Fishbeds.

Yeah, many have argued that it was the strengthening of ties between the US and USSR due to their co-operation against the Chinese that led to the end of what is known as the "first phase" of the Cold war, and even allowed the USSR to survive to this day.
 
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