Why change the story line. It was the cuban’s and the russians the last time that attacked and the Chinese were on our side.
From the movie when the kids are asking the downed fighter pilot who is on our side he reponds “about 700 million screamin china men”. The kid says that he thought there were a billion china men. The pilot says something tothe effect that there used to be...
He throws the glass of rot gut whiskey into the fire, causing a flare up.