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China diary, that until “good conditions and understanding” existed, China
would not send specialists to Albania to work on “phosphorites, on PVC and
other problems.”^60 (PVC is polyvinyl chloride, a stock for plastics.) Albania’s
economic relations with China had been “greatly weakened,” Hoxha wrote,
because China “has taken a hostile position which is gradually extending to
the field of state and economic relations.” Chinese specialists, for their part,
were making “rude remarks” about commentary in Albania’s media, includ-
ing some articles by Hoxha himself. The last article in Hoxha’s China diary
was a thirty-eight-page polemic of November 1977 entitled “Can the Chinese
Revolution Be Called a Proletarian Revolution?” The answer was “no.” The
PRC had become “revisionist” and had a “bourgeois ideology.” This was the
same judgment that would have been rendered by Zhang Chunqiao or Jiang
Qing. Deng Xiaoping apparently decided that China would not allocate scarce
resources to Albanian Maoist critics of China’s new Long March. China also
dumped the tiny US Maoist communist party in 1979.^61