*There was no rescue, this was a loss of face.
The Khmer Rouge were monsters, but they were China’s monsters.
Pol Pot was useful, kept Vietnam busy and the Soviets out. When the Vietnamese army marched into Phnom Penh to stop the killing-they humiliated Deng Xiaoping.
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