18 February 1978

3. The Khmer Rouge magazine “Revolutionary Youth” ramps up its rhetoric against Vietnamese, calling them “poisonous”.

“the expansionist territory-swallowing Yuon are constantly looking for opportunities to invade and take Cambodia and re-enslave the Kampuchean people”.

2. The ambassadors in China of Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Tanzania & Iraq visited Cambodia for 2-weeks. Deng Yingchao’s (widow of China’s Premier Zhou Enlai) also tours Cambodia.

A recap on what happened in Cambodia in January 1978 under the Khmer Rouge:

1. Vietnam withdraws its forces to a few strategic positions. Observers say it is more powerful,🇻🇳suffered heavy losses in some of the ongoing some smaller clashes (Photo2: a destroyed🇻🇳command post) https://t.co/kzF5NYRcfY