French Indochina was in Southeast Asia.
 French Indochina provided a Metropolitan France with large financial aid; between the years 1915 and 1920 of the 600,000,000 francs that France received from its colonial empire 367,000,000 francs were sent by French Indochina
 In November 1914 Japan would supplant the German sphere of influence in southern China with its own political and economic influence making putting it in direct competition with French Indochina

