First, the Nixon Doctrine was the reason for the complete withdrawal of American armed personnel from the Vietnam war by the year 1973 by President Richard Nixon (Hastedt, 2009). With no more military, economic and political support from the U.S., the Southern Vietnamese government fell to the Northern Vietnamese government during the year 1975 leading to Vietnam establishing the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in the year 1976. The Doctrine also led to Japan changing its foreign policies. Before Nixon Doctrine, between 1945 until 1960, Japanese foreign policy was of a close relationship with the U.S. The Nixon Doctrine expanded the U.S. allies in Southern Asia by President Nixon visiting China, this made the Japan to re-align its foreign policy making her to show new independent attitude in its relations to other countries and not serving as an America Junior partner in Asia. President Nixon visit to China enabled America to practice triangular diplomacy (Hastedt, 2009), which involved the United States of America, China, and Russia, doing business together and sharing the U.S. first sole responsibility defender of freedom with other powerful …show more content…
One tenet of the Nixon Doctrine was that the allied nation was to offer its own military Manpower during the war. With this affected the South Vietnamese military personnel number reducing it drastically leading to the signing of the treaty with the North (Elliott, 2007). The signing of the treaty between the U.S., China and the Soviet Union, followed by economic benefits between the powerful countries, affected China and Russia's behavior in the Vietnamese war (Donato, 2005). Prior to this triangular diplomacy, the Soviet Union and the People Republic of China had the direct interest on the war, but with the treaty, they opted to stop aiding North Vietnamese government. The good relationship created by triangular diplomacy, made the North Vietnamese sign cease-fire treaty after the American bombed them, and with the good relationship between China, Soviet Union, and the U.S. the North Vietnamese did not get military aid from their communist