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Far East
Australia
Australia provided a wide and substantial range of aid to Vietnam under the Colombo Plan and by direct bilateral assistance in addition to its military aid of approximately 7,000 combat troops.
Economic and technical assistance after 1964 totaled more than $10.5 million. Australia provided three surgical teams—forty-two people; a group of civil engineers to work on water supply and road construction projects; and three experts in dairy and crop practices and radio techniques. The Australian government trained 130 Vietnamese in Australia; furnished 1,500,000 textbooks in Vietnamese for rural schools; and provided 3,300 tons of corrugated roofing for Vietnamese military dependent housing, six large community windmills, 15,750 sets of hand tools, 400 radio sets and 2,400 loudspeakers, 16,000 blankets, 14,000 cases of condensed milk, and a 50-kilowatt broadcasting station at Ban Me Thuot. In addition, approximately $650,000 in emergency assistance was provided during 1968; included were construction materials, foodstuffs, and vaccines.
Republic of China
The Republic of China provided an 80-man agricultural team, an 18-man psychological warfare team, a 34-man electrical power mission, and a 16-man surgical team.
China financed the training of 40 Vietnamese power engineers and technicians and also provided training for more than 200 Vietnamese in Taiwan. In the way of goods and materials, it provided 26 aluminum prefabricated warehouses, agricultural tools, seeds and fertilizers, cement, medical supplies, 500,000 mathematics textbooks, and an electrical power substation. China also donated 5,000 tons of rice worth more than $1 million. There were private gifts as well.
Japan
Partly in response to a request from the Vietnam government but chiefly through reparations, Japan provided over $55 mil[lion]
