Item COLD WAR 5/2 - Transcript of interview with government official Chen Youwei, 1997

Typescript transcript of interview with Chen Youwei, [Government official, People's Republic of China], relating to the collapse of US/Chinese relations following the declaration of the People's Republic of China, 1 Oct 1949; the decision by Chairman Mao Zedong to authorise an attack on the Nationalist islands in the Taiwan Strait, [1949-1950]; Mao's reaction to the denunciation by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, of the Stalin cult and the excesses of Stalinism at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, Feb 1956; Soviet aid to China, 1949-1959; the Sino-Soviet split, the breakdown in relations between China and the USSR, 1959; the differences between Mao and Chou En-Lai (Zhou Enlai), Premier and Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China, in the aims of Chinese foreign policy, 1949-1976; Khrushchev's visit to China, Oct 1959; the Chinese development of the atomic bomb, [1958]-1964; the Chinese reaction to the Soviet intervention in Hungary, 1956; Khrushchev's visit to the USA, Sep 1959; relations between Chairman Mao and Khrushchev, 1953-1964; the refusal by Enver Hoxha, First Secretary of the Albanian Communist Party, to accept the denunciation of Stalin, and the subsequent exclusion of Albania from COMECON (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance) and the Warsaw Pact, 1956-1961; the economic and ideological association between Albania and China, 1968-1978; the detonation of the first Chinese atomic bomb, Lop Nor, People's Republic of China, Oct 1964; the Cultural Revolution, the reassertion of Maoist doctrines in China, 1965-1968; Soviet aid to North Vietnam, 1955-[1975]; the Chinese aid programme to North Vietnam, 1955-[1975]; fears of a Soviet invasion of China, 1969; rapprochement between the USA and the People's Republic of China, 1972-1979; the visit to China by US President Richard Milhous Nixon and Dr Henry (Alfred) Kissinger, US National Security Adviser, Feb 1972. 23pp