And now my view of Red Dawn, is that the main purpose of the film was to paint the ChiComs in a good light, as our “allies” against the Soviets. China went all out in the 1980s to act like our friends to sucker us into leveraging our economy to them; it worked.
Jed Eckert: Well... . who is on our side?
Col. Andy Tanner: Six hundred million screaming Chinamen.
Darryl Bates: Last I heard, there were a billion screaming Chinamen.
Col. Andy Tanner: There were... .