Why didn't China conquer Indochina or Burma?

>>3326539
They feared the Jungle nogs

Too much trouble, better to just make them pay you

>>3326576
>make them pay you

And give bazillion shits jungle nogs can't make in return. Tributary Kingdoms ALWAYS benefited more from the Middle Kingdom then Middle Kingdom would from them. What's worse was that sometimes tributaries would just switch clients if it benefited them more.

>>3326588
Yeah, but they might send you elephants, and that makes it all worthwhile

>>3326592
I guess, elephants are preddy cool

Because they were barely holding some semblance of a official government together in the fractious time from the 10s to the 40s

and then the countries that oversaw those regions possessed nuclear weapons when they finally had something that could even think about conquest

>>3326539
Why would they?

>>3326539
They conquered Vietnam.

>>3326706
Vietnam wasnt a political entity before some rogue Qin general setting it up as his own kingdom though. From a chinese perspective, at least way back then, it more like reclaiming lost land

>>3326588
t. Ching Chang Chong