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Portrait of Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, China, 1972.

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Sino-Soviet Relations

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United States

Sino-Soviet Split, 1960-1984

Trade agreement between European Economic Community and China

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Eastern Europe

Romania

Zhao Ziyang on a tour of East Germany in June 1987.

China-Eastern Europe Relations

Portrait of Mao Zedong from propaganda poster

Mao, Zedong

1893- 1976

Interkit, 1966-1987

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Zhivkov, Todor

1911- 1998

Photograph of Zhou Enlai in 1972.

Zhou, Enlai

1898- 1976

Warsaw Pact

Leonid Brezhnev, 1974.

Brezhnev, Leonid Il'ich

1906- 1982

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Maurer, Ion Gheorghe

1902- 2000

Nicolae Ceausescu, 1974

Ceaușescu, Nicolae

1918- 1989

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December 15, 1986	Secret Telegram from Jász, 'On the Relations between China and the Socialist Countries in 1986' A Hungarian report on China's changing relations with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
December 14, 1983	Cable from Géza Kótai, 'Report on the China Consultation of CC International Departments of Fraternal Parties of Ten Socialist Countries' Report on annual Interkit meeting to coordinate Soviet bloc analysis of and policy towards China.
January 25, 1985	Cable from the Embassy of the Hungarian People's Republic to China, 'Some New Phenomena in the Chinese Pursuit to Differentiate Socialist Countries' Review of China's foreign policy and its recent efforts to drive a wedge between the Soviet Union and other socialist countries.
September 11, 1969	Minutes of Conversation between the Romanian Delegation to Ho Chi Minh’s Funeral, Led by Ion Gheorge Maurer, and the Chinese Delegation, Led by Zhou Enlai, 11 September 1969 Meeting between Chinese and Romanian delegations. The Romanians express their belief that it would take pressure off of them, if the tensions between the USSR and China were resolved. They discuss the general relations between the USSR and Romania and other states in Eastern Europe, specifically how closely their militaries and economies are linked to those of the Soviet Union. Enlai notes how individual communist parties now develop independently, instead of in cooperation with others.
July 18, 1969	Telegram from Ion Dorobantu, Romanian Charge d’Affaires in Beijing to Corneliu Manescu Regarding the Reply of the Chinese Communist Party to the Invitation to Send a Delegation to the 10th Congress of the Romanian Communist Party Telegram from Ion Dorobantu to Corneliu Manescu transmitting the contents of the Chinese reply to the Romanian invitation to send a delegation to the 10th Congress of the RCP. The Chinese refuse, politely, on the grounds that there will be a Soviet delegation present as well.
December 23, 1977	Intelligence Note, Polish Embassy in Bucharest, 'The Current Status of Romania-PRC Relations' Report from the Polish Embassy in Romania on the current status of Romania-Chinese relations. The report concludes that "friendship with China remains a permanent element in the strategy of the Romanian foreign policy" as this relationship is " designed as a counterbalance for Romania in their relations with the Soviet Union and other countries of the socialist community." It predictions that relations will improve in the future.
September 9, 1973	Cryptogram No 1144 from Polish Embassy in Beijing, Romanian Diplomats in China The Polish Embassy in Beijing reports that the Romanian ambassador is taking a hard line towards diplomats from other European socialist countries, avoiding contact, boycotting their receptions, and providing disinformation to them.
October 28, 1969	Telegram Number 2142-08, 'Conversation with the Deputy-Minister of Foreign Affairs (Europe)' Luo Guibo is curious about developments in West German-Soviet relations and the Conference on European Security, while Etienne Manac’h inquires about China's appointment of ambassadors to Europe.
October 10, 1969	Telegram Number 1930-33, 'China and the European Socialist Countries' Etienne Manac’h reports that although China may soon re-appoint ambassadors to Eastern Europe, officials from Poland and Czechoslovakia are skeptical of China's policies toward their countries.
May 16, 1969	Note Number 399 from Pierre Cerles to Michel Debré, 'China and Eastern Europe' Pierre Cerles provides an assessment of Chinese foreign policy toward Eastern Europe during the 1960s within the context of the Sino-Soviet split, the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Cultural Revolution, and China's own internal leadership divisions.