Was there effectively a “Chinese problem” in Southeast Asia in the decades following World War II, with millions of Chinese in the region potentially sympathetic to communist China? American policy-makers seem to have thought so at the start of the Cold War, given China’s influence around the region. At a time of immense turmoil and upheaval in Asia, including the Vietnam War, US politicians warned against the possibility of a “domino effect,” with one country after the other potentially turning communist.
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Source: Phys.org