More, in the view of American policymakers, the source of all evil was not even the Vietminh but an aggressive, militaristic, imperialist, Communist China. By 1954 it was increasingly obvious that French and American interests in Indochina, which had been seemingly compatible for the preceding four years, were now about to diverge; the Americans now had more interest in continuing the Indochina war than did the French, who increasingly wanted out.
