The World - News from June 24, 1988

China denied that it told the United States it would grant asylum to Cambodian guerrilla leader Pol Pot and his aides if a settlement is reached in the Cambodian conflict. “I cannot help but point out that the Washington Post is highly irresponsible in carrying such a report and that such a report is utterly groundless,” a Foreign Ministry spokesman said in Beijing. China supplies weapons to Pol Pot’s forces, who are fighting the Phnom Penh regime and Vietnamese troops, and the report had been taken as a sign that the brutal Khmer Rouge would not play a dominant role in a future Cambodian government.