Abstract

China's aid to Vietnam during the First Indochina War was crucial to the Vit Minh's victory over France in 1954. While China's national leaders were deeply involved in the conflict, it was officials in southwest China who bore overall responsibility for supporting the Vit Minh from 1949 until 1954. Officials from Guangxi, Yunnan, Guangdong, and Hainan Island delivered vast amounts of aid to Vietnam and established numerous schools and training programmes in China for Vietnamese soldiers and students. The amount of Chinese provincial aid to Vietnam suggests that China's contribution to the First Indochina War was far more extensive than previous scholarly inquiries have indicated and points to the overall need to reassess China's foreign relations during the Cold War within the context of border provinces and localities.

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