30 January 1979

Sihanouk is sent to Lenox Hill Hospital on Park Avenue. The US State Department concluded it was better to give Sihanouk time to think it over in a secluded place instead of hastily granting him asylum & annoy the Chinese, as Vice-Premier Deng’s visit is upcoming.

N. Chanda on how the fall of Phnom Penh to Vietnam changed the balance of power in Southeast Asia. Cambodia is no longer a buffer state. China has been humiliated, the Soviets strengthened, Thailand deeply worried. Will it be politically disastrous for Vietnam? https://t.co/gE5GwtFYF0