Algeria–China relations have played an important role amidst the backdrop of Algeria's turbulent 20th century history. Algeria's struggle for independence from France in the 1950s was, in many ways, rooted to the rise of a socialist political philosophy as a welcomed alternative to the perceived oppressive nature of the liberal-capitalist French state. China was an early supporter of the "Front de Libération Nation (FLN)" – the socialist revolutionary party which continues to dominate Algerian politics today.