The fact is just like this. In the 1960s, at the peak of the Cold War, China's channels for purchasing food from countries like Canada and the United States remained open. China even bought food from Canada to support Albania. Because the domestic situation was very difficult, they really couldn't produce food, but they couldn't refuse Albania's request for aid. They had to use foreign exchange to buy food and send it to Albania. Albania was still very angry, protesting that the food aid was too little and too slow. The Chinese government had no choice but to send a telegram to a grain-carrying ship, instructing them to urgently change course to Albania. The crew received the telegram and wept bitterly, but still resolutely followed the orders to Albania. Albania's anger subsided slightly. Albania's complaints and accusations towards China's aid were always full of dissatisfaction, claiming that the quality of aid provided by China was too poor. China had no choice but to import a complete set of machinery and equipment from Italy for Albania using foreign exchange, which finally stopped Albania from blaming China. When Albania needed aid, they were arrogant, saying that if it weren't for their support, the aid provided by the Soviet Union would be more and better, and China should be grateful. China highly valued this only European ally. Despite having a group of Asian and African brothers, none of them could compare to this legitimate European white country. After Albania fell out with the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union expelled Albanian students studying in the Soviet Union. China was delighted and offered better treatment to these students to attract them to China. The black students refused, questioning why their treatment was so much better than ours. With no money left to further improve the treatment of black students, they could only watch as they returned home.
When President Peng visited Eastern Europe, the leaders of East Germany requested food aid from China. They said that in West Germany, each person could eat 80 kilograms of meat per year, and they wanted the people of East Germany to eat even more to show superiority. President Peng remained silent for a long time and said that they didn't have much food either. The leaders of East Germany were surprised, saying that their newspapers reported that they had excess food. President Peng remained silent again for a long time and said that what the newspapers reported might not necessarily be correct.