Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An kulla dangantaka da tsohuwar jihar Kudancin Vietnam lokacin da Kudancin Vietnam ta amince da 'yancin Malaniya a 1957. Daga wannan lokacin, Malaya ta ba da taimako ga gwamnatin Kudancin Vietnam a yakin da take yi da Viet Cong da sojojin Arewacin Vietnam. Firayim Ministan Malayan Tunku Abdul Rahman ya yi ziyarar farko a 1958 wanda Shugaban Kudancin Vietnam Ngô Đình Diệm ya yi sau biyu a ranar 28-31 ga Janairu 1958 da Oktoba 1961. A shekara ta 1963, lokacin da Malaya ta canza zuwa Malaysia (tare da ƙarin yanki a tsibirin Borneo), babban gwamnatin a Kuala Lumpur ta damu da tasirin 'yan gurguzu na Arewacin Vietnam za su yi barazanar wanzuwar ta bisa ga ka'idar Domino, don haka canza matsayinta don zama mai goyon baya ga shigar Amurka cikin Yakin Vietnam kamar yadda Malaysia ta kuma fuskanci tawayen kwaminisanci na kanta
Ka yi haƙuri. Tunku Abdul Rahman ya bayyana wadannan damuwa a watan Disamba na 1966 kuma ya yi kira ga Amurka da Birtaniya don samar da karin tallafin kayan aiki ga kokarin yaki a Vietnam. Malaysia ta dauki bakuncin kwasa-kwasan horo a harkokin gwamnati da yakin basasa ga jami'an gwamnati, kuma ta samar da babura don karfafa 'yan sandan Kudancin Vietnam da karfin kayan aiki na soja. Zuwa karshen yakin Vietnam a shekarar 1975, Malaysia ta rufe ofishin jakadancinta a Saigon a matakai biyu; da farko ta janye wadanda ke da alhakin ofishin jakadancin a ranar 12 ga Afrilu 1975, kafin a rufe shi gaba daya bayan kwanaki 16 - kwana biyu kafin faduwar Saigon. Malaysia ta kuma ba da izini ga Gwamnatin Juyin Juya Halin Jamhuriyar Kudancin Vietnam a cikin 'yan kwanaki bayan da aka kafa shi a watan Mayu na shekarar 1975, inda ta yi nuni da matsayin rashin son kai na Malaysia game da akidar siyasa da tsarin zamantakewa.