Peng Zhen and Barbu Zaharescu discuss China's "great famine."

Li Xiannian describes the difficulties facing China in the wake of the "disaster" and its inability to meet trade obligations with other socialist countries.

Huang Zhen and Jerzy Knothe discuss the socialist bloc's foreign policy coordination.

In an exhaustive review of Romanian foreign policy, the Chinese Embassy concludes that the "USSR has a decisive influence over Romania’s foreign policy."

The Chinese Embassy reviews Poland's foreign and domestic policies, and concludes that the "Polish United Workers’ Party leadership has a fairly systematic right-deviating brand of nationalism."

The Chinese Foreign Ministry lays out China's policies toward Romania in the context of the Sino-Soviet split.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry reviews the process of the normalization of relations between China and France and speculates how the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France might affect China's status in the United Nations and with the UK, Europe, Africa, and Japan.

Edward Ochab and Deng Gang discuss the "difficult" situation in China following the Great Leap Forward.

Chinese and German diplomats discuss East German policies toward the Sino-Soviet split, criticisms of Stalin, and the situation in Yugoslavia.