… 5. William Shawcross, Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia (New York, Simon and Schuster, 1979). … on China and the Khmer Rouge, 1979: “I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. Pol Pot was an abomination. We … to Brzezinski, the USA “winked, semi-publicly” at Chinese and Thai aid to the Khmer Rouge. (Elizabeth …