If South Vietnam falls so does Cambodia.how plausible would it be that Communists still come into power in Cambodia, following the end of the Vietnam War?
The split happened during the Cambodian-Vietnamese war before then there was only Pol Pot groupWhat sort of Communists come to power in Cambodia in that situation? A group less wackadoodle than the ones who came to power IOTL?
I was talking about the split within the Cambodian communist party which lead to pro-Vietnamese Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party and the Anti-Vietnamese Khmer RougeDo you mean that the Sino-Soviet split happened during the Vietnam vs. Cambodia conflict of the 1970s? I think the split is generally dated as occuring before that.
Any reason why ?I feel there will always be a Sino-Soviet split at some point, but a delay is likely the case here.
Why would they ?Both the USSR and PRC would agree on suppressing the Khmer Rouge before they get fairly started.
I feel there will always be a Sino-Soviet split at some point, but a delay is likely the case here. It would do wonders to the Chinese economy. (OTL it stopped the bulk of China's trade as well as cutting them off from Soviet aid.) So ALT China would be much further ahead for a while scientifically and its industry would be greatly improved as well. Best come to best you avoid Cultural Revolution. I say again, you may avoid the never ending nightmare that was OTL 1960s China. (Something that scared Brezhnev and Kim Il-sung to death.)
Both the USSR and PRC would agree on suppressing the Khmer Rouge before they get fairly started.
Any reason why ?
Why would they ?
This is assuming China can still develop it's industry as effectively if it's tied into the Soviet economic Bloc. The presence of large Russian imports and continued protection relations is going to take alot of drive out of the economic and political motivations for "self stregthening", since there's no need to become self relient for security or stability of supplies sake. We could just as easily see a China go into an import trap/ fall into "Third World is" as Maoist theory suggested
What do they gain from overthrowing the Khmer Rouge? The Soviet Union and China weren't exactly shining beacons of Human rights.Because the Khmer Rouge was totally insane?
What would be the impact on the Cold war without a Sino-Soviet Split
How would this impact Indo-China and other proxy conflicts
Would Japan remilitarize earlier
Couldn't China focus on the American presence in Pacific and in Southeast Asia ?( long border, border issues, ideology differences, the fact that China wanted to pursue a more independent policy, was large enough to buck Moscow's line, etc.)
Would this due to different leaders or just a more united communist movement, if they do go, Communist, they would be more orthodox-Marxist-Leninists than Maoists.
Laos will probably survive, as will rhodesia
Would this due to different leaders or just a more united communist movement