On this Day in Chinese History; 5 May

This day, 5 May, in 1970, Premier Zhou Enlai congratulated the Cambodian Head of State Prince Norodom Sihanouk on the formal establishment of the National Unity Government and announced the formal severance of ties with General Lon Nol. Zhou also offered to provide Sihanouk with the Friendship Hotel in the western suburbs of Beijing as an office building for the in-exile government.