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.

Date: August 1963
Period: Cold War
Made by: Department of National Defense, Republic of Vietnam (magazine 'The Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces')
Region: Southeast Asia
Country: South Vietnam
Medium: Print
Issuer type: State
Regime: Diem Government
Leader: NGO Dinh Diem
Audience: Foreign public
Purpose: Warn or inform
Theme: War and the military
Event: Vietnam War
Techniques: Transfer
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Wikimedia Commons (Google Books scan of a Department of National Defense magazine), retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: Public domain (Commons tag PD-South VietnamGov: Republic of Vietnam government work)
Department of National Defense, Republic of Vietnam; digitised by Google Books, via Wikimedia Commons.

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.