Since the Westerners turned the spearhead of aggression and pointed it at the East, many countries in Asia have not escaped this catastrophe.
At that time, the Great Qing Dynasty was knocked on the door by Western powers by force, not to mention this small Vietnam. In 1883, Vietnam became a French colony, and the Vietnamese people began to be exploited and oppressed by the French.
If it had not been for the outbreak of World War II, which had upset the balance previously established by the great powers, the shackles on Vietnam might not have been opened smoothly in this way. It is precisely because the Vietnamese people have comprehensively resisted Japanese aggression that they have taken the opportunity to master weapons, train fighters, and have the capital to pursue independence.
However, after the end of World War II, the French still wanted to stay in Vietnam and continue to colonize Vietnam, but Vietnam, which had long been accustomed to life and death, refused to become someone else's colony.
After the war, Vietnam became a region that all forces wanted to invade. Chiang Kai-shek, who also won the War of Resistance, also sent an army to Vietnam for geopolitical considerations, nominally to help the Vietnamese people.
As Chiang Kai-shek, he hoped that the new leader of Vietnam would be kind to his Nationalist government, because Chiang Kai-shek also planned to play a big chess game, and if there were troubles, it would greatly affect his next move.
The French saw what Chiang Kai-shek had done, and began to unite with Britain and the United States to pressure Chiang Kai-shek to withdraw from Vietnam, because the French still wanted to continue to colonize Vietnam, and once there was a direct conflict with Chiang Kai-shek, that day it would really be troublesome.
Soon, Chiang Kai-shek could not withstand the pressure and withdrew his troops back.
But for the Vietnamese people, it is definitely impossible to carry it, so which side to rely on has become a difficult matter in Ho Chi Minh's heart.
You know, Ho Chi Minh belongs to the "communists" of Vietnam, and there is a fundamental difference from Chiang Kai-shek in terms of beliefs and concepts. Chiang Kai-shek wanted to help Vietnam, but in fact wanted to help Vietnam's Kuomintang.
The French are even less worthy of dependence, and the purpose of the French coming to Vietnam is to continue to colonize Vietnam and let Vietnam continue to become France's "migrant workers".
Faced with such a difficult choice, Ho Chi Minh chose to accept the French from afar and reject Chiang Kai-shek.
This also has this sentence from Ho Chi Minh above:
It would rather be colonized by France than occupied by China.
As a revolutionary, Ho Chi Minh has long seen everything, no matter what the name is, the ultimate goal is to interfere in Vietnam's affairs.
For Ho Chi Minh, although it seems that France's economy and armed forces are not weak, after World War II, France is indeed in decline, and its dominance has long been much weaker.
Most crucially, the French had lost their head start in terms of distance in order to control Vietnam. But the Nationalist government is different, once controlled by Chiang Kai-shek, then Ho Chi Minh wants to do things, and the difficulty can be imagined.
And the most crucial point is that during the revolution in Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh ran to the Yunnan border area of China for a long time, using the border between the two countries as his cover.
No matter how you say it, people from other countries cannot openly cross the border to arrest Ho Chi Minh. But if he fell out with Chiang Kai-shek, then even if Ho Chi Minh wanted to take the Vietnamese people to independence in the future, where should he use it as his second hiding place?
Because of this, Ho Chi Minh accepted the French conditions, but only a year later, Ho Chi Minh began to lead the Vietnamese people to the independence movement, and finally defeated the French.
But the relationship between countries is so fickle, and then Vietnam fought the Vietnam War with the United States for 20 years, and after the Sino-Soviet Union became bad, and after the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, Vietnam provoked New China at the instigation of the Soviet Union. Again spanked by the PLA, this is honest.