Brother Enemy by Nayan Chanda (p. 375):
What
Hanoi sought was not only the security of a political bloc, but the creation of
an economically integrated unit in which to achieve "gradual implementation
of labor distribution, ensuring an effective use of labor and land potentials
of the three countries." With its 6 million hectares of cultivated land
and population of 60 million (1985), Vietnam clearly saw potential in sparsely
populated Cambodia (7 million population) with its 1.5 million hectares of
cultivatable land and enormous fishing grounds.
...all the Lao and Cambodian provinces were coupled with
sister provinces in Vietnam.
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