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| | The South China Sea and the Maritime Nature of War for 20th Century Vietnam : (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | When the “Viet Minh”, the well-known Vietnamese nationalist coalition led by the Indochinese Communist Party (ICP), took power in August 1945, the economy was in a wreck, much of the northern peasant population was starving to death, the army was nascent, and the state was weak. |
 | | However, Viet Thang traders were no doubt happy to have local state authorities allocate them the lion’s share of all trade in the Viet Minh zones, given long-established and competitive Chinese operations in Vietnam. |
 | | In 1948, Viet Minh documents revealed that Quat Lam had been receiving monthly quantities of 2,000 bales of cotton, one ton of mercury, 100 kg of potassium chloride and small quantities of mortars and bazookas from Beihai. |
| www.vietnam.ttu.edu /vietnamcenter/events/2002_Symposium/2002Papers_files/goscha.htm (11768 words) |
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