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The concept of “island hopping” is to make a comparison of two international relationships in the East and South East Asian regions. that is the Anglo-Japanese (1854–1922) and Australian-Indonesian (1945–1995) relationships, which might not normally be compared to one another. T…

In 1975, the Vietminh (term used to denote North Vietnamese who held Communist sympathies) won their crusade to unite North Vietnam with the South. It was as much a Civil War as a war of resistance against foreign invasion. In order to understand how the Communist Vietminh won, …