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ADB Asian Development Bank
ALP Albanian Labor Party (Albania’s communist party)
ASEAN Association of South East Asian Nations
AEOI Atomic Energy Organization of Iran
APEC Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (organization)
ARATS Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (Beijing)
BRICS Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa
CAC Central Advisory Commission
CAS Chinese Academy of Sciences
CC Central Committee
CCP Chinese Communist Party
CCTV China Central Television
CDU Christian Democratic Union (West Germany)
CMAG Chinese Military Advisory Group (North Vietnam)
CPAFFC Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign
Countries
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CMC Central Military Committee
CNPC China National Petroleum Corporation
COCOM Coordinating Committee (NATO)
COSTIND Commission on Science Technology and Industry for National
Defense
CPB Communist Party Burma
CPM Communist Party of Malaya
CPSU Communist Party of the Soviet Union
CPUSA Communist Party United States of America
CPT Communist Party of Thailand
CPV Chinese People’s Volunteers
CSCE Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
CYL Communist Youth League
BW Biological Weapons
DRV Democratic Republic of Vietnam
ENRC Esfahan Nuclear Research Center (Iran)
EPZ Export Processing Zone
E&R Extension and Review (NPT)
ETIM East Turkistan Islamic Movement