Comments on a Report [1]
(July 1960)

One good friend is enough, let alone ten or several dozen! Ninety percent of the masses of the people the world over sympathize with and support us, or may sympathize with and support us. Is this not so?

[1] Refers to a telegram dated July 15, 1960, from the Chinese Embassy in Romania to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The telegram states that the Albanian Ambassador to Romania recently said: Albania has been subjected to foreign aggression for centuries and has never submitted; since liberation, its courage has increased a hundredfold, because it is fighting hand in hand with the great Chinese people, the Soviet people, and the peoples of other socialist countries. Albania resolutely opposes imperialism and revisionism, because the Albanian people understand imperialism and revisionism very clearly. The era of imperialism is already past, and the socialist camp has sufficient strength to oppose imperialism. He said: "Imperialism is still powerful; it is still possible for it to create disasters and adventurously launch wars. The danger still exists, and it is very great." Quoting Mao Zedong, he said that U.S. imperialism stretches out its hands everywhere, only to put the noose around its own neck, and in the end it will surely be strangled.