Hundreds of thousands of our Vietnamese allies were incarcerated, and more than a million driven into exile.
China demonstrated to its Cold War adversary, the Soviet Union, that they were unable to protect their new Vietnamese ally.
Told from the imaginary point of view of an average American military aviator, the tone of the song is totally unfriendly for Vietnamese allies of Soviet Union.
At a time when America abandoned many Vietnamese allies and South Vietnam's military and political leaders abandoned their own country, it was a heroic act.
The provinces of Houaphan and Xiangkhoang had been the stronghold of Pathet Lao forces and their Vietnamese allies.
Only twenty-five of the fifty Chinese aircraft survived the brief but furious ACM after being deserted by their supposed Vietnamese allies.
The Americans, not to be outdone by their Vietnamese ally, joined in with a chorus of American-Vietnamese pidgin expletives.
But according to one Soviet official, China declined, evidently hoping to persuade Mr. Gorbachev to press his Vietnamese allies harder.
Also hidden from scrutiny was the growing antagonism between the Khmer Rouge and their North Vietnamese allies.
For more than a decade, he regularly passed government secrets to the South Vietnamese Communists, or Vietcong, and their North Vietnamese allies.