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title: 'The Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces, Volume 5 (August 1963), page 7: photographs of Chou En-lai with Ho Chi Minh and of Yeh Chien-ying with Vo Nguyen Giap'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/armed-forces-magazine-vol5-communist-embraces-1963/
description: Two press photographs show smiling embraces, captioned as Chou En-lai ('Red China') with Ho Chi Minh and Yeh Chien-ying ('Red China') with Vo Nguyen Giap…
section: Collection
---

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# The Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces, Volume 5 (August 1963), page 7: photographs of Chou En-lai with Ho Chi Minh and of Yeh Chien-ying with Vo Nguyen Giap

Two press photographs show smiling embraces, captioned as Chou En-lai ('Red China') with Ho Chi Minh and Yeh Chien-ying ('Red China') with Vo Nguyen Giap ('Red North Vietnam'), above a sentence about a 'South Vietnam Revolutionary Policy' of the Labor Party's 14th Convention. The tell: the colour label 'Red' and the paired embraces present Chinese and North Vietnamese leaders as one bloc, so the association stands in for an argument about outside direction of the insurgency.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
[...]Chou-En-Lai, Secretary of Department of Red China Foreign Affairs and Hồ-chí-Minh.

—Yek Chien Ying (Red China) and Võ-nguyên-Giáp (Red North Vietnam)

To begin campaigning in South Vietnam, Trường Chinh sketched a new plan called the « South Vietnam Revolutionary Policy » of the 14th Convention of the Central Committee of the Labor Party.
```

The first caption is cut off at the left edge of the scan; the missing opening is marked [...]. The 'Digitized by Google' watermark is omitted.

[← Zentralbild "Terror in Südvietnam": woman and children before a burning house](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-zentralbild-terror-in-suedvietnam-mother-children-1963/) [Civil rights March on Washington, D.C. →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/march-on-washington-reflecting-pool-1963/)

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