A story with potential is developing in Albania. Recently Albania admitted the five Chinese citizens of Uighur background released from Guantanamo.

Diplomatic sources said the United States, which refused to allow the five men to stay there, asked more than 20 countries to take them before asking Albania. China's ambassador to Albania on Monday pressed for the Uighurs to be handed over to China. (Reuters)

Albania has an import-relationship with China worth some $150 million. In circa 1960 it was communist Albania that sponsored China's seat at the UN in place of Taiwan. We'll have to see if this will affect China's stance towards Kosova too. Yet this is true chinckenry by countries that stand for freedom and human rights to let the fate of the five men on the hands of poor and weak Albania.