… York and London: Routledge, 2004) 2. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger discusses the Khmer Rouge regime with … US National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, on China and the Khmer Rouge, 1979: “I encouraged the Chinese … Pot was an abomination. We could never support him, but China could.” According to Brzezinski, the USA “winked, …