"The War in Vietnam to “beat Communism” and maintain an Asian sphere of influence – 3,800,000 Vietnamese between 1955-1984 [46] about 58,000 US soldiers [47] about 200,000 in Laos [48] about 300,000 in Cambodia [49] it’s hard to calculate Agent Orange deaths but up to 4,800,000 people were exposed [50] and 100,000 US soldiers killed themselves"

Same reason any other country invades another country

to spread their influence

here's the full source btw http://sci-hub.cc/10.1177/002234337601300405

"to spread their influence"

explain.

What's their to explain? they would like another friendly country in asia

Industries have financial incentives to maintain capitalist spheres of trade throughout the world

to plant their military base etc

e.g. the rubber trade having an incentive to open up African markets

e.g. the Congo

"to plant their military base etc"

What does this even mean? What non-Vietnamese communist military bases existed in Vietnam?

Why would communists have an incentive to put military bases there?

China was heavily involved fam

source?

lol, why did the ussr overthrow the afghan government?

why did they conquer eastern europe?

'conquer' is a strange word

ask the people in poland how they liked the occupation

More like they promoted socialist insurgencies for the purpose of increasing international scope

or do you call it liberation?

socialists are in every country, like it or not

here's a source I haven't read yet, I assume you're going to read it all http://www3.nccu.edu.tw/~lorenzo/Jian%20China%20Involvement%20Vietnam.pdf

sure I will

you get to work on those articles boi

Thinking socialist uprisings were not stimulated by the soviet union is crazy though

I mean you at least know about afghanistan I hope

"More like they promoted socialist insurgencies for the purpose of increasing international scope"

Are you blind?

Did I not just concede that?

don't get angry

argument against what?

"Thinking socialist uprisings were not stimulated by the soviet union is crazy though" - you just threw that out there as a non-sequitur

not something I ever denied

We both agree that they did it then

" The relationship between Communist China and Vietnam was
very close in the late 1950s and early 1960s.9 The close connection with
Hanoi, as well as Beijing's revolutionary ideology, would not allow the
Chinese to go so far as to become an obstacle to the Vietnamese cause
of revolution and reunification."

so far the article seems to be suggesting that unified ideology (i.e. forming an axis against US interests in Indo-China) was a more pertinent reason for Chinese involvement in Vietnam than fiscal gain rooted in a socialist praxis

The U.S would say they did the same in Chile and Korea

What's the difference in stopping the spread of U.S ideology or soviet ideology?