Almost immediately afterward , as agreed to at the Potsdam Conference ( and under Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers ' " General Order no . One " . ) , 200,000 troops of the Chinese 1st Army occupied Indochina as far south as the 16th parallel . They had been sent by Chiang Kai-shek under General Lu Han to accept the surrender of Japanese forces occupying that area , then to supervise the disarming and repatriation of the Japanese Army . This effectively ended Hồ Chí Minh 's nominal government in Hanoi . Initially , the Chinese kept the French Colonial soldiers interned , with the acquiescence of the Americans . The Chinese used the VNQDĐ , the Vietnamese branch of the Chinese Kuomintang , to increase their influence in Indochina and put pressure on their opponents
Potsdam Conference
Potsdam Conference
First Indochina War