Indo-China The Collapse of the French Empire in the Pacific

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Indo-China, the collapse of French Empire in the Pacific. The Asia is one of the most coveted regions in the world. Indo-China, here France still has stronghold in the Far East and called it her balcony on the Pacific.

Today this strategic area, immensely wealthy in resources and commanding the riches of the Indies and the sea lanes in this quarter of the globe, is no longer French Indo-China. Today it is Japanese Indochina. For years, Japan had kept an eye on Indochina.

In Tokyo, the Japanese military leaders stood around great maps on tables and studied the minutest details of the terrain, the shoreline, the harbors. Your basis here, General, would be of greatest strategic value to Japan.

In the northern town king? Yes. would then be in a position to bomb the economic and political bases of Jun Kai-Sek government in Jun-Kim. It would also give us more effective bases against the Puma Road. And against British Burma and Thailand. And here, control of this point would mean control of British communications