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earlier comment

The English text badly needs editing and correcting as it is peppered with linguistic mistakes almost to the point of illegibility. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.135.211.43 (talk) 11:13, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

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I'm not sure you can call it an invasion: the Vichy gvt. ordered them to surrender. I don't think a shot was fired. -- JCWF, 2002 August 22

OK, interesting. Also worth noting is that Japan was not at war with France (Free or Vichy) at the time. -- Hotlorp, 2002 August 22

did not invade Vietnam nor occupy Thailand like the other Asian countries. (A Vietnamese American student told me this.) The Japanese Army invaded Thailand in order to go to British Malaya, but after some negotiations, the Thais became allies to Japan like Manchuria. They’re only interested in China and invaded territories in Asia that belonged to the British and Americans who were militarily supporting the Chinese. The Japanese let the Vichy Government continue administering French Indochina but posted some IJAAF squadrons at airbases in northern Vietnam in order to intercept American/British/Chinese military planes and transports from India and Burma headed towards western China. As a matter of fact, after the war ended, some Japanese military officers and NCOs helped Ho Chi Minh and the VietMinh forces as military advisors against the French Forces in the 1950s in the first Vietnam War. --James 02:51, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Did Japanese soldiers fight for the Vietminh?

Maps

The ideal map for the historical colony would be something from the 1920-1940 timeframe, illustrating how contemporaries saw it. There are a couple around the net, only PD of the colony I saw was an 1885, useful but not reflective of the later-established boundaries. A supplemental map would be a modern regional map highlighting countries, a la West Africa. Stan 14:17, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Meaning of term

Every source that I have consulted says that "Indochina" means the mainland peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is not exactly the same as "French Indochina", which is an historical term. So, at the risk of causing a major uproar, I shall adjust things accordingly. Kelisi 03:29, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Peninsular Malaysia

Is the Peninsular considered as part of Indochina? I doubt it so. Despite the peninsular is not an island, history has already considered the peninsular as part of maritime SEA. In fact, the sultanate of malacca was considered a maritime empire instead of agrarian, as all other indochinese empires were. __earth July 8, 2005 01:37 (UTC)

I kind of agree with you. Geografically speaking, yes, the peninsula is part of the Euro-Asia continent, but historically, it isn't. Most of the kingdoms that once rule the peninsula like Lembah Bujang kingdom and Malacca are maritime kingdom. The term Indochina is usually used for historical reason thus the peninsula is not part of Indochina, yet it's part of Malay archipelago. 141.213.240.242 04:54, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Indochina, Indo-China or IndoChina

Indo-European, Indo-Germanic, Indonesian (one word because the nesia part is from Greek for island); the map itself reads Indo-China- how did the title become Indochina? Paul venter 17:21, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

indian influence

how is laos and thailand under indian influence. laos people have chinese style names, and thailand has a much larger chinese population than indian. not to mention thailand takes rmb. can you say the same for rupis.

You ought to do a little more research. Thailand and Laos owes much of its culture to India, but you can't say the same for China. 4.239.66.137 (talk) 20:00, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

actually lao names are indian influenced through pali. and indian influence is seen in almost every aspect of thai/lao/cambodian culture. the chinese influences are minimal in comparison. thailand may have a large ethnic chinese population who hold influence in the country but the two cultures themselves remain heavily distinct from each other.

Possible, Cambodian gain a wrong indian influenced in the past but convert to various influeced in following century. I don't know why the writer still thought their idea is correct and edit back that Thai, lao, burma and cambodia under strong indian influced and the rest is Chinese. You should explain. Seeing indian element there didn't mean their from indian. Indonesia, malaysia consist chinese influenced refer to the population. That totally nonsense if compare to its long history of indian influenced and then changed by middle east. should made more detail about those influenced, not just write down if strong indian or chinese. And study back to burma. This country is equally influenced by chinese and indian. One more about chopstick; if they used chopstick, it mean they got the hardly chinese. This idea is not logic to the term of infuenced. Sometime chinese can be infleuncedin dress and architecture like burma or some tradition. Engsamnang (talk) 08:35, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Origin of term

What is the histroical origin of the term? When was it first used and by whom? Dan Gluck 14:56, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, would want to know that. 202.54.176.51 (talk) 11:08, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

The French colonisers in Vietnam adopted term this in expanding their territory to Cambodia and Laos. It has French origins,Indochine whiich translates to Indochina in English. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dwaynydelights (talk • contribs) 09:52, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

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