三个世界
Like other Bains-inspired parties, the CPE-ML took the Chinese side in the Sino-Soviet split, thus being endorsed by Albania, allied at the time with Maoist China and opposing both the capitalist West and the Soviet bloc in accordance with the Three Worlds Theory promoted by Beijing. However, during the deterioration in Sino-Albanian relations the CPE-ML increasingly sided with Enver Hoxha, developed party to party relations with the Party of Labour of Albania and renounced China as revisionist.