How were the proxy wars of East Asia different from those of middle east and Afghanistan?

Accordingly, great failures in classic wars increased tendencies towards proxy wars.[7] Since the early twentieth century, proxy wars have most commonly taken the form of states assuming the role of sponsors to non-state proxies, essentially using them as fifth columns to undermine an adversarial power.

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