SINO-EUROPEAN RELATIONS DURING THE COLD WAR AND THE RISE OF A MULTIPOLAR WORLD

The support of the MacArthur Foundation allowed for the translation of many of the documents included in the appendix, as well as for the publication of this volume. [...] The conference concluded with the passing of the “Declaration of the Twelve Communist and Workers Parties,” or, as it is more commonly known, the “Moscow Declaration.” 5 May 1958 / The Chinese Communist Party passes the “General Line of the Great Leap Forward” on May 1958 and begins the people’s commune movement and the drive to increase steel production. [...] The primary actors at this conference are the diplomats from China and Europe— 4 SINO-EUROPEAN RELATIONS DURING THE COLD WAR AND THE RISE OF A MULTIPOLAR WORLD the insiders, the veterans of the diplomatic process that designed the evolution of “I want us to the relations between China and Europe during the Cold War. [...] I divide the process of the Sino-Albanian relations, from their establishment at FAN CHENGZUO the end of the 1940s to their breach at the end of the 1970s, into four stages which I call the spring, summer, autumn, and winter of the Sino-Albanian relationship. [...] Mao Zedong, in the name of Chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, sent a telegram of congratulation on the occasion of the 5th Representative Congress of the Party of Labour of Albania.9 Mao Zedong attended the National Day reception hosted by the Albanian Ambassador to China, 9 “Comrade Mao Tse-tung’s Message of Greetings to the Fifth Congress of the Albanian Party of L.