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    Plausibility check- Could France & French Indochina have been disinterested in Laos, crisis with Siam, and common border with British Burma?

    Alternatively, this scenarios differences in the Siam-Indochina border may not make much difference to Siamese-Thai foreign policy right before and during Japan's launching of the Great Pacific War. Sort of like in the last paragraph in the post above, Thailand may start to gravitate more...
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    Plausibility check- Could France & French Indochina have been disinterested in Laos, crisis with Siam, and common border with British Burma?

    Presuming the OP proposed scenario happens, France leaves the Laotian territories Siamese, and it merely adds some buffer territories of the eastern Bolovens Plateau, the Central Highlands around Pleiku, Kontum, An Khe and Da Lat to southern Annam, the world significance should be minimal for...
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    Plausibility check- Could France & French Indochina have been disinterested in Laos, crisis with Siam, and common border with British Burma?

    Laos was the last, least populous, and least valuable piece added to French Indochina, and had basically been tributary provinces of Siam beforehand. 1893 Franco-Siamese crisis - Wikipedia Before 1893 it was shown on maps as part of Siam, and French Indochina, at least since the French...
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