 Produced five years before the beginning of the United States' rapproachment with Mao Zedong in 1972, "Red Chinese Battle Plan" was made during the Vietnam War under the Lyndon Johnson administration.Despite the widening rift between the China and the Soviet Union, both powers supported the Vietnamese communists during the Indochina conflict, while the Western Bloc cultivated a myth of Chinese expansionism throughout the decade.Presented as a documentary on Chinese history, the film mixed Cold War-era anti-communist rhetoric with earlier Western Yellow Peril rhetoric into one, portraying China as seeking to gain control of Africa and Latin America before moving on to capture the United States.