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...United States also faces China indirectly through French Indo-China. America sends roughly the same amount of money to France each year under the Marshall Plan as the French are spending to maintain their 150,000-man army in Indo-China (roughly the same number as the U. S. has in Korea...
...India, Mao seemingly had acquired a valuable Asian friend. But three weeks age Chinese troops bowled through Tibet--buffer between Communist China and non-Communist India--despite strong protest from New Delhi that "invasion of Tibet by Chinese troops cannot but be regarded as deplorable...recent developments have affected (Indo-Chinese) friendly relations...
...Minh's advancing Communists closed a siege ring around Laokay, last French outpost in northern Indo-China. By one of history's ironies, the Vichy French, with Japanese consent, had built up the fortress at Laokay during World War II. Then, in the postwar years; Nationalist Chinese occupation forces had destroyed it. Now, only partly rebuilt, and held by a thin garrison of Foreign Legionnaires, Moroccans and Vietnamese, Laokay looked untenable. It was under Communist mortar fire. Its abandonment and the retreat of its garrison 160 miles down the Red River valley to the Hanoi-Haiphong beachhead seemed...
...Faster delivery of arms to anti-Communist forces in Indo-China...
...setback in Indo-China gave the Communists and fellow travelers a chance to howl for an end of the war and a negotiated peace with Viet Minh Boss Ho Chi Minh (see WAR IN ASIA...