Chapter 27 Current approach to advocacy and negotiation[1]

(November 7 and 8, 1945) Jia Yi Xu Yu to Bing Ding: U.S. policy deserves attention, and the opinions of friends[2] are worth considering.But under the resolute offensive policy of the United States and Chiang Kai-shek, we have no way to back down, only self-defense.In the northeast, Shanhaiguan has been launched on the 3rd. The 15th Division attacked from Qinhuangdao with the support of the US military. We asked our army to withdraw from Shanhaiguan and leave the railway line in advance.Shenyang's success or failure depends on the outcome of the battle. If I can annihilate the two or three divisions that will attack first within this month, gain time to gather troops and train the reserve (it takes two months), and then I can completely annihilate its offensive force. Then the Northeast may belong to me. At that time, let the Kuomintang have a foot in it, and it will be very easy to speak.At present, the self-government army and the propaganda and demands for total self-government can be kept secret, but war is inevitable.If the battle is unfavorable and Chiang [3] wins Shenyang and Changchun, our side can only gain second-class border areas.Even so, it will be resolved by war, and Taonan, Longjiang, Jiamusi and other places cannot be obtained through negotiation.The withdrawal of the Central Army from North China can be made more appropriate during negotiations. Propaganda and negotiations can be somewhat different, but the solution to the North China issue also depends on combat.In the current negotiations, the other side is all about delaying the attack and has no sincerity to solve the problem. All the other side's arrangements are to eliminate our party.Our propaganda has many weaknesses, and your opinion is very correct. We should adopt a "sorrowful" attitude, and we should take care of the centrists. Don't draw swords, but be kind. Defense is offense, and after a period of time all parties will see it clearly.The current negotiating policy can retain room for expansion and contraction under the premise that it does not restrain brothers and make it difficult to speak in the future.Please think it over, write a detailed article, and analyze it to me, so that the research is mature, and then you can submit it to the other side.

A, B, Xu Qi to Bing Ding: The electricity has not been sent, and the Xuyu telegram [4] is received. We have the same opinion, and we will handle it as the incoming call.Today's Xinhua News Agency published the detailed numbers of the more than one million Kuomintang troops attacking us, which should help expose the deception of the other side. Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] This is a telegram from the CPC Central Committee to the CPC delegation in Chongqing. [2] Friends refer to the Soviet Union.

[3] Jiang refers to Chiang Kai-shek. [4] Refers to the telegram sent by Zhou Enlai and Wang Ruofei to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on November 7, 1945.