Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Van Dong tells the Thai ambassador in Hanoi that there are no Vietnamese troops in Cambodia, but soon the new Cambodian government will exercise their sovereign right and request Vietnamese troops be stationed in Cambodia. France’s TV1 shows Heng Samrin, Cambodia’s new leader as head the Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation, addressing a crowd in PhnomPenh https://t.co/8egx0JtUyU

As the “Kampuchean People’s Revolutionary Council” states that it would maintain “existing diplomatic relations & was ready to establish new ones,” Australia says it “recognises” Kampuchea & will conduct diplomatic relations with whatever government in control in🇰🇭 Japan declines China’s request to jointly support the Khmer Rouge. China was invoking the🇨🇳-🇯🇵Friendship Treaty signed in August, in which both declared to oppose hegemony by any third nation in Asia – which China says Vietnam’s seeks with its invasion of🇰🇭 After two days of airstrikes and heavy fighting, Vietnam captures Kong Island, a former bastion of the Khmer Rouge. 22 vessels, which flew the flag of the Cambodian National Salvation Front, were…

As Cambodia lost its pro-Sihanouk leaders, the Lon Nol leadership, its American-trained officials, and now Khmer Rouge officials, American diplomats wonder “whether there are any Cambodians left through whom the Vietnamese can rule” Thailand’s Prime Minister Kriangsak warns Vietnam not to position its troops on the Thai-Cambodian border and affirmed its neutral stance, saying Thailand will not be used as a supply route to support the Khmer Rouge. While failing to recapture the city, around 1,500 Khmer Rouge guerrillas carry out harassing operations against Vietnamese forces in Kampong Som. Vietnam blockages the port to prevent supplies reaching the KR. Vietnam had been subjected to irrational Khmer Rouge border provocations for…

Vietnamese PM Pham Van Dong reassures his Thai counterpart in a call that Vietnam will abide by all commitments made during Dong’s visit last October, where it pledged to respect Thailand’s territorial integrity & to refrain from supporting the Thai Communist Party The @UN Security Council, votes 13:2 in favour of a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Cambodia & for the withdrawal of foreign forces. The Soviet Union used its veto to block its adoption. The UN still recognises the Khmer Rouge as🇰🇭’s government https://t.co/3Ea42vNDwO “The prospects of a sustained guerrilla war within Cambodia are uncertain. Hatred of the Khmer Rouge will weigh against hatred of the Vietnamese.…

Sihanouk arrives at the US Mission to the @UN in NY and asks for political asylum. His wife stayed at the Waldorf Astoria to not annoy China too much as she wants to keep her two daughters in Beijing safe.

Sihanouk slips a note to an American police men: “Please, secretly transport me in a police car to the US @UN ambassador at 2.00 a.m. – I need to discuss🇰🇭’s & my own situation. Please don’t let the Khmer Rouge security agents, who are with me at the Waldorf know.” Chinese Communist Party Chairman and Premier Hua Guofeng urges Thailand to co-operate with China in light of Vietnamese “aggression’ in Cambodia. He says China will support the “Khmer Rouge till the end” Thailand’s new policy on Cambodian refugees is to try to push them back, failing which to disarm soldiers or fight those who won’t disarm. Divided in 1. Khmer…

In a meeting China’s Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping tells Khmer Rouge FM Ieng Sary to examine the idea of a united front with Sihanouk: it should seriously be considered naming him Head of State & bringing non-communists into the government to canvass support abroad. Vietnamese backed forces capture Cambodia’s last two major cities, Battambang & Siem Reap, from the Khmer Rouge as well as Angkor Wat temple.

Lacking veto power in procedural matters, the Soviet Union fails to halt an emergency meeting of the @UN Security Council, so Prince Sihanouk was invited to speak – he called for a resolution demanding the withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from Cambodia https://t.co/9PCJvuptZK A Thai military helicopter takes Khmer Rouge FM Ieng Sary (and Defence Minister Son Sen’s wife & a group of broadcasters, who will set up ‘Voice of Democratic Kampuchea’ radio in China) from Poipet to Bangkok,where they fly commercially to Beijing via Hong Kong. Vietnamese MiG-21 planes bomb airfields in Cambodia’s Siem Reap & Battambang provinces, reportedly to prevent China from airlifting supplies to the Khmer Rouge forces.…

While the Soviet Union, Ethiopia, Hungary, Poland, East Germany, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Laos, Bulgaria & Czechoslovakia recognize the new Cambodian government, Romania says “nothing can justify support given to elements rising against their own government” “It is not Denmark’s policy to use aid as an instrument to punish or reward under-developed countries for their actions in sudden, volatile situations”, says🇩🇰’s Lise Oestergaard on Denmark’s decision to continue aid to Vietnam, despite its involvement in Cambodia As they follow the stench of rotting corpses Vietnamese combat photographers Hồ Văn Tây and Dinh Fong discover the S-21 prison: (now Toul Sleng Genocide museum) https://t.co/i67lbqtMed (trigger warning) https://t.co/BUxKeeufve

Arriving in NY, Sihanouk tells reporters: “Cambodia is the victim of naked aggression & a brutal invasion from Vietnam”, warns that the overthrow of the Khmer Rouge is an “international problem, which could result in Sino-Soviet war”. Stopping over in Tokyo on his way to the @UN in NY, Prince Sihanouk gives a press conference saying he hopes to address the UN Security Council session on Cambodia on behalf of the Khmer Rouge. “The KR only control Battambang & Siem Reap.” https://t.co/7pG7AhVEdw Jim Laurie covers Sihanouk’s speech in Beijing. Sihanouk says he did not approve of the extreme policies of Pol Pot but still considers him a patriot. He insists…