PC:Surviving South Vietnam

Anyway South Vietnam could survive post Paris Peace Accords

How would a surviving South Vietnam effect Laos and Cambodia
 
Then it is incredibly difficult and would rely on multiple PODs for this to occur given the structural weakness of the South Vietnamese state by this time.
 
If South Korean and Thai troops remained or were brought back. Would that help South Vietnam survive or hold on longer ?
 
Anyway South Vietnam could survive post Paris Peace Accords
If the US kept the funding up they'd have a chance. OTL the US slashed the ARVN's budget by 90% between 1973 and 1975.

That said, by 1975 the entire long border with Cambodia and Laos was the contact line so the ARVN is still in a difficult position (one that OTL resulted in the catastrophic decision to abandon the central highlands). So I still don't think I'd be placing my money on them.

How would a surviving South Vietnam effect Laos and Cambodia
It'd be interesting to see if North Vietnam would still side with the Soviets in a scenario where the war in the South is still ongoing. IIRC China provided the majority of the North's war material, so I'd assume not (and that likely means a blank cheque for Pol Pot).
 
It was said that Thiệu was actually going to negotiate with Mao to end the war, because China was satisfied with the 1973 status quo. However, the North, aided by the USSR, wanted to push down and end it once and for all. Had Thiệu actually found the guts to negotiate with China, it’s possible the PRC would support the South in opposition to the north. Odd, I know, but China didn’t like the USSR because Sino-Soviet split, and would have taken the opportunity to fund the south against the north.

This didn’t happen in OTL because

1.) Thiệu bore historical Vietnamese suspicion towards the Chinese...(big northern neighbor that always tries to eat Vietnam)

2.) The PRC may use the opportunity to fund more Communists in the South.

Assuming this succeeds, my scenario is that the South, with Chinese support, pushes in the North and unifies Vietnam. Hence, you would have a dictatorship that listens to China...odd, I know..an authoritarian right-wing military junta that listens to Communist Beijing...and it would certainly be odd to the Americans who would wonder “wtf just happened?”

But hey, it’s AH.
 
That said, by 1975 the entire long border with Cambodia and Laos was the contact line so the ARVN is still in a difficult position (one that OTL resulted in the catastrophic decision to abandon the central highlands). So I still don't think I'd be placing my money on them.
Anyway Cambodia and Laos could be in a better position against the communist forces
 
Could Mao get Thieu to drop South Vietnamese claims to the Paracel and Spratly islands
It was just a suggestion. The issue of Hoang Sa and Truong Sa (Paracel and Spratly) would actually be a big issue because we Vietnamese have always historically hated China, and OTL this was a big reason why Thiệu didn't go and negotiate with China to end the war.

Hence, we lost, and we suffered.
 
It'd be interesting to see if North Vietnam would still side with the Soviets in a scenario where the war in the South is still ongoing. IIRC China provided the majority of the North's war material, so I'd assume not (and that likely means a blank cheque for Pol Pot).
most was from Warsaw Pact sources, and not much from China.

In fact, Mao had a 'tax' on 2nd world supplies shipped in by railroad, so Haiphong was very important, most aid came in that way.

One of the reasons mining that in 1972 was so effective.
 
It was just a suggestion. The issue of Hoang Sa and Truong Sa (Paracel and Spratly) would actually be a big issue because we Vietnamese have always historically hated China, and OTL this was a big reason why Thiệu didn't go and negotiate with China to end the war.
Didn't the North drop its claims only to bring them back at the end of the Vietnam war.
most was from Warsaw Pact sources, and not much from China.
Couldn't China open a second front similar to the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese war or a large scale border conflict or just a large military build up .
 
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