China and Indochina by Jitendra Mohan, examines the shifting geopolitical struggle between China, Vietnam, and the broader Indochinese region. It dismantles Hanoi’s justification for its 1978 invasion of Kampuchea, exposing the myth of a ‘Chinese threat’ propagated by Vietnamese propaganda. The text highlights China’s decades of material support for Vietnam’s liberation struggle—totaling up to $20 billion—before Hanoi’s strategic realignment with the Soviet Union. Mohan argues that Vietnam’s subservience to Soviet expansionist goals, rather than genuine security concerns, drove its annexationist policies in Laos and Kampuchea, turning it from a revolutionary force into an instrument of imperial domination.