Soviet Strategy in South East Asia (Vietnam Factor)
1) Soviet-Vietnam alliance
http://countrystudies.us/vietnam/61.htm
http://www.jstor.org/pss/2644070
The Vietnamese invasion in Kampuchea and the consequent conflict between China and Vietnam has yelid significance strategic gains for Soviet Union. In less than five years it has become a major military power in South East Asia, a near equal to the U.S. Through Vietnam, the Soviet have acquired the use of three military bases and an ally that is powerful military force in its own right, with one of the largest army in the world.
Although the alliance was formed out of mutual need -Vietnam needed the USSR in order to take Indochina and the USSR needed the Vietnamese expansion to extent its influence in South East Asia ...
2) China invaded Vietnam (Sino-American alliance)
http://www.webomatik.net/vietnam-usa/1979gb.html
Deng Xiaoping went to Washington in January 1979 to cement the normalization of China's relations with the United States, he told President Jimmy Carter in a private meeting what China was about to do - and why..
3) Finally, the Soviet Union collapsed.
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