Albania: China

A file of correspondence on relations between Albania and China. The documents cover a visit to China by an Albanian government and communist party delegation; the delegation's meetings with the Chinese leaders Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong; details of speeches criticising Soviet revisionism and U.S. imperialism; and further reciprocal visits of military delegations. Other documents in the file cover Albanian and Chinese press reports on the forty-seventh anniversary of the founding of the Chinese communist party and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Albanian army; and further Chinese reports in praise of Albania's support for China's cultural revolution. The file also discusses the arrival of a new Chinese ambassador in Tirana; and reports of the closure of Tirana airport and the sighting of rockets there, thought to be surface-to-air missiles.