Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te 6 o Hanuere 1979, i whakaaetia a Sihanouk ki te rere ki Beijing mai i Phnom Penh, i reira ia i powhirihia e te kaiwhaiwhai o Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping. I te ra i muri mai ka hinga a Phnom Penh ki nga hoia Vietnamese i te 7 o Hanuere 1979. I te 9 o Hanuere 1979, ka rere a Sihanouk mai i Beijing ki New York ki te haere ki te Kaunihera Haumarutanga o te UN, i reira i whakahe ai ia i te Khmer Rouge mo te whakatikatika i te kohurutanga o Kambodia me te
Te noho a Vietnam ki Cambodia. I muri mai ka tono a Sihanouk ki Haina i muri i tana tono mo te whakarurutanga ki te US me France.