China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population of around 1.4 billion in 2019. Covering approximately 9.6 million square kilometers (3.7 million mi2), it is the world's third or fourth-largest country by area. As a one-party state led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the country is officially divided into 23 provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing), and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau. China emerged as one of the world's first civilizations, in the …

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11 May 2022 English

Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War provides access to British government secret intelligence and foreign policy files from 1873 to 1953, with the majority of files dating from …

concentration camps ● The Japanese invasion of China and the Sino-Japanese war ● Jewish insurgency in in Palestine ● The rise of Communism in China and the spread of communism to South-East Asia ● The Korean


5 May 2022 English

Dr. Mark Allinson, University of Bristol; Professor Csaba Békés, Corvinus University of Budapest; Dr. Peter Bugge, Aarhus University; Professor Melissa Feinberg, Rutgers University; Dr. Hope M. Harrison, The George Washington …

particularly in the context of its relations with China and the Soviet Union during the Cold War era and


4 May 2022 English

Cold War Eastern Europe provides access to thousands of files from the political departments of the U.K. Foreign Office responsible for dealing with and reporting on the Soviet Union and …

countries around the world, including the U.S.A. and China. ● Soviet projection of power in Eastern Europe


1 January 2017 English

In 1960–61, the outbreak of an increasingly acrimonious dispute between Nikita Khrushchev’s Soviet Union and Enver Hoxha’s Albania caught most foreign observers by surprise, all the more so because the …

Mediterranean, and created a power vacuum that faraway China could only partially fill. Sooner or later, each 1960 Hoxha was still disinclined to openly support China vis-à-vis the U.S.S.R., and he personally instructed 12, 1961. PRO FO 371 160340 001. 25 Ana Lalaj, “China: The last ally of communist Albania. New insights Sources, New Findings: The Relationships between China, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (Chinese Academy Hungary and would no doubt be strongly opposed by China.”30 For these reasons, the F.O. officials considered


1 January 2017 English

We will focus here on how British and U.S. officials assessed the prospects of Sino-Soviet relations, why they were of the opinion that NATO benefited from the Sino-Soviet and Soviet-Albanian …

observed between British and U.S. attitudes toward China? How did the Foreign Office justify its willingness willingness to engage with the People’s Republic of China? 3) Which similarities and differences can be observed observed between British approaches toward China and Albania? Why was the Foreign Office less eager to the 1961 sale of Vickers Viscount aircraft to China). https://history-commons.net/artifacts/238407


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 1 January 2017 English

As well as heralding a series of momentous changes within Soviet domestic politics and society, the death of Stalin on March 5, 1953 also brought forward important shifts of tone …

concerns in the West. Apart from the relationship with China, Stalin had shown relatively little interest in


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

scope but probably not merely window dressing. China 8. Chapin (Canada) commented that Kuang Hua's replacement S T SIGHT IS THE MOTIVE FOR THE REFERENCES TO CHINA, THOUGH, AGAIN, THE GDR IS AS GOOD A SOUNDING-BOARD relations in their public presentation of China, although China did get a strongly critical mention in meeting with Tsedenbal this year with more on China?) y I CUa^ . S D M Jack (without encs) cc:


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

A file containing documents relating to Anglo-Soviet political consultations. Subjects covered in the file include planning talks due to take place in Moscow in January 1983; a proposed visit to …

relations with China. CONFIDENTIAL d. South and Southeast Asia; i) Afghanistan; ii) Indo-China; iii) Indo/Pakistan Chinese foreign policy; UK and Soviet relations with China. / I CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL • I d. South and Southeast Asia; i) Afghanistan; ii) Indo-China; iii) Indo/Pakistan relations; iv) Chinese interest would want me to probe the Soviet position on China and South East Asia, and of course on the super


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

their cards better. Sassou Nguesso paid a visit to China in 1980, amid saturation Congolese television coverage


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

A file containing weekly reports on the situation in Berlin. Subjects covered in the file include the imprisoned Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess; Soviet activity in the Berlin air corridors; …

P O L I C Y . 3. ( U N C L A S S I F I E D ) CHINA/GDRs ADN(GDR NEWS AGENCY) HAS GIVEN DETAILED


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