Analysis of the recent Chinese nuclear weapon test and it's strategic implications for China's diplomatic and military policies.

Notes from the NATO Ministerial meeting. Topics discussed included the need to "relaunch" détente, Soviet policy in Africa, US optimism about SALT, political tensions in Romania, China and the Baltics, and European concerns over Soviet medium range missiles.

Zhou Enlai offers Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau an extensive history of the Chinese Civil War and Chinese Revolution. Zhou also comments on China's foreign policy positions toward and views on the Soviet Union, nuclear war, Bangladesh, revisionism, and great power hegemony, among other topics.

China and Japan discuss the Soviet Union and the border dispute in Mongolia, and the United States working on SALT II.

Discussion points from Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim's meeting with Zhou Enlai

Brezhnev reports to Honecker on international affairs.

Conversation between Deng Xiaoping and President George Bush on Sino-US relations. Deng expressed the hope that the bilateral relationship would develop in a "new pattern" based on mutual trust, mutual support, and minimizing as much as possible mutual problems. They also discussed the continued tensions between China and the Soviet Union,

Concerns US-Soviet relations, including involvement in Africa, NATO, China, and SALT.