FieldMarshal
Banned
IOTL, Vietnam and China have long been hostile to one another. Even after both nations developed communist governments, the antagonism continued. The Vietnamese favored the Soviet Union throughout the Sino-Soviet split, and allowed the USSR to maintain military bases in their country. In 1978, Vietnam toppled the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia; China responded by invading Vietnam in 1979. After the inconclusive end of that war, a number of border conflicts raged between the nations throughout the 1980s. To this day, relations remain tense between the two communist nations, with Vietnam actually leaning toward it’s old enemy the United States for aid against China.
In this scenario, the USSR and the Warsaw Pact survive the Revolutions of 1989 and continue to exist into the modern day. The the USSR and the PRC mend their relations by the mid-1990s, soon developing the sort of quasi-alliance that we see in Sino-Russian relations IOTL.
How do relations between the USSR, China, and Vietnam develop in this scenario? Does the USSR favor one over the other, or does it attempt to mediate disputes between it’s allies neutrally? Are Sino-Vietnamese tensions sufficient to break these alliances, or do they sort of turn into the communist version of the Greco-Turkish spats within NATO?
In this scenario, the USSR and the Warsaw Pact survive the Revolutions of 1989 and continue to exist into the modern day. The the USSR and the PRC mend their relations by the mid-1990s, soon developing the sort of quasi-alliance that we see in Sino-Russian relations IOTL.
How do relations between the USSR, China, and Vietnam develop in this scenario? Does the USSR favor one over the other, or does it attempt to mediate disputes between it’s allies neutrally? Are Sino-Vietnamese tensions sufficient to break these alliances, or do they sort of turn into the communist version of the Greco-Turkish spats within NATO?