As one of the Southeast Asian countries, Vietnam is bordered by China in the north and Cambodia and Laos in the west, and is a socialist republic in Asia. After Vietnam declared its independence in 1945, it embarked on the road of liberation from the north and south until reunification was achieved in 1976, when the name of the country was changed to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
All this is closely related to the Second World War, in which Vietnam was controlled by the Western powers and reduced to colonies, until the end of The Second World War, Vietnam chose to become a colony of France rather than be occupied by China. Why did China help Vietnam become an independent country after It became a French colony?
I. The domestic situation in Vietnam during World War II
Let us pull back the time to the last century, when the three fascist empires of Germany, Italy, and Japan waged a large-scale aggressive war against the whole world, that is, The Second World War, when China, as the main battlefield in the Asia-Pacific region, was engaged in a fierce anti-fascist war, and Vietnam, as a small country, inevitably became a colony of western powers.
At this time in Vietnam, there was the oppression of the feudal dynasty inside, the invasion of powerful countries outside, the so-called where there was oppression, where there was resistance, this sentence applies to any corner of the world. Under the oppression of internal and external troubles, a Vietnamese named Ho Chi Minh stepped forward to lead the people to democracy, but the road to democracy was difficult.
At first, Vietnam was colonized by the British, and then Japan invaded Asia, and soon occupied Vietnam, when Vietnam could only rely on Britain to compete with Japan a little, but it was also a drop in the bucket.
At that time, the Kuomintang led by Chiang Kai-shek also played a role in the Vietnam-Japan Confrontation War. In the aftermath of World War II, the Nationalists joined forces with the British to drive Japan out of Vietnamese lands. After World War II, Vietnam soon overthrew the old dynasty under Ho Chi Minh's leadership and moved toward independence.
However, from an international point of view, Vietnam's independence has not been recognized, the domestic situation in Vietnam at this time is not optimistic, the territory is divided into north and south halves, half continue to be colonized by the British, half by the national army, want to rely on Vietnam's own strength to break this deadlock, it can be said that it is more difficult, so Ho Chi Minh made a bold choice.
Second, Vietnam's choice
After the victory of the anti-fascist in Europe, the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union held the Berlin Conference, and the war in the East continued, in the eyes of the Western powers.
Vietnam remains treated as an object ready to be colonized, with no sovereignty to speak of. If you want to change the status quo, you have to take action, and Ho Chi Minh, as the leader of the Vietnamese proletariat, knows this truth well, and since he can't change the status quo at home on his own, he must rely on the power of others. Ho Chi Minh set his sights on France, which was inferior to Germany in World War II, but was able to compete with Britain.
In World War II, the British army was badly damaged, and the British troops stationed in Vietnam were limited, far from quenching the thirst. So Ho Chi Minh approached the French fuehrer in 1946 and asked for a deal that Vietnam could be used as a French colony, but in essence the power was still in Vietnam's hands, so that Vietnam would become a vassal of France and drive the British troops away.
With the idea of developing in East Asia, France happily signed an agreement with Ho Chi Minh, and what France did not know was that Vietnam wanted more than that. At that time, after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the war of domestic liberation had also begun, and the strength of the Communist Party was getting stronger and stronger day by day, and soon the Kuomintang was lagging behind. Chiang Kai-shek, as chairman of the committee, also had no intention of worrying about the deployment of Vietnam's troops at this time.
At this time, Vietnam, with the help of France, drove the British colonists out of the country, leaving only the nationalist army to compete with the French army. The Nationalist army in Vietnam engaged in a years-long tussle with the French army, and the French even threw out the conditions for repaying the reparations and asked the Nationalist army to withdraw. At this time, the Nationalist army was already depressed and decadent, and Chiang Kai-shek was forced to move to Taiwan, so he ordered the acceptance of French conditions and the withdrawal of troops from Vietnam.
3. Vietnam is independent and France is opposed
To say why Vietnam did not choose to cooperate with the national army at that time, the bad ending may be one of the reasons. After the withdrawal of the Nationalist army, Vietnam immediately stood against the French, and this time, Ho Chi Minh was determined to truly lead the masses to achieve independence and move toward democracy.
Although Vietnam's military force is weak, but in its own territory, even if France is strong, it cannot suppress the all-out counterattack of the ground snake, and the strength of Vietnam's national strength will consume France's strength little by little, and it is also far from quenching the thirst of the near. It wasn't until 1954 that France hurriedly escaped its entanglement in Vietnam.
Since then, Vietnam has embarked on the road to democracy without hesitation, and it is undeniable that Ho Chi Minh is a good leader. In fact, when Vietnam and France were entangled, a new China was born, and in the face of this democratic republic, Ho Chi Minh and many Vietnamese people aspired to it. Therefore, in the late stage of the Vietnamese Resistance against France, our Party reached out to help Vietnam achieve independence.
epilogue:
Vietnam and China are two countries with similar historical backgrounds, and in the face of the enemy in the belly, they have embarked on the road of striving for sovereignty and independence without hesitation. New China saw Vietnam, just like seeing another self, because it had been rained, so it was willing to help others hold umbrellas, Vietnam did not disappoint, became a democratic republic, which is inseparable from the leadership of Ho Chi Minh, in today's Vietnam, there is still a place called Ho Chi Minh City to commemorate this great man.