Ho Chi Min makes a deal with France

Ok Uncle Ho talks to the French to resist the Japanese if invaded. He gets a vague promise of independence some time after the war. I would say this is late 39 or early 40. What type of butterflies would come from that?
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You mean De Gaulle? The Metropole were fascists at the time.

I don't think De Gaulle would accept, nor would Ho trust the French.

FDR lives a little longer, or tells Truman how he wanted to support Ho over France, well... Ho becomes the Southeast Asian Tito, though if the ROC wins a unified China he will probably fall into the Soviet camp.
 
So France can fight and die against the Japanese so that they have the option of losing Indochina to Ho Chi Minh instead of the Japanese?

I don't see the benefit for France unless they are lying to Ho Chi Minh.

Plus, if the French would ever leave Indochina, they would probably prefer to leave the old Vietnamese royal family and the landed aristocracy and any Vietnamese Catholics in charge, not the Communists.
 
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