Since the Japanese Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued, on April 17, a circular note to the imperialist powers concerning its policy toward China, each imperialist state has, from the standpoint of its own interests within its sphere of influence in China, voiced various expressions of dissatisfaction. Meanwhile, the Nationalist Government in Nanjing promptly released the most shameless and traitorous pronouncements. In order to obtain the stance of the Chinese Soviet Government on this matter, a reporter from the Red China News Agency paid a visit to our Chairman, Comrade Mao Zedong. According to his remarks: The Japanese Foreign Ministry’s recent circular note clearly establishes China as a Japanese protectorate and directly asserts that Japan will use force to maintain its complete military, political, and economic monopoly over China. The purpose of this Japanese imperialist scheme is to suppress the Chinese revolution outright by Japanese imperialist might during the process of Japan’s sole and complete colonization of China, thereby securing a more solid rear base for waging war against the Soviet Union. Although this Japanese plan has met with opposition from the international imperialists, their true intent is merely to prevent Japan from monopolizing China; they seek instead to have China divided among the imperialist powers, turning it into a “public colony” under the so-called Open Door policy. As for the direct suppression of the Chinese revolution and the strengthening of a rear base for anti-Soviet warfare, all the imperialist powers are evidently in agreement with Japan. Among them, the most shameless and pitiful betrayer of China is undoubtedly the Nationalist Party. On the 19th, a spokesman for the Nationalist Government in Nanjing issued a disgraceful statement of the basest sort, claiming that the Nationalist government’s mission “lies in promoting international cooperation and fostering international peace and security”—that is, “advocating joint imperialist control and partition of China, and ensuring the safety of imperialist interests in China, constitutes the Nationalist Party’s due obligation.” Of course, the Nationalists “have never harbored any intention of harming others, much less of disturbing peace in East Asia!” Moreover, the Nationalists solemnly declared to Japan: “The purchase of military supplies, such as warplanes, as well as the employment of foreign military instructors or experts, are undertaken solely for defense purposes—primarily to maintain domestic order and tranquility.” Yet, in reality, this has indeed been the case. Not a single copper coin or a single bullet from the loans secured from Britain, the United States, Japan, France, and Italy, nor from the military equipment thus acquired, has ever been used to resist Japanese imperialist aggression in Northeast and North China, nor to oppose the brutal seizure of warehouses by British and French imperialists. Throughout, the Nationalist regime has consistently capitulated and compromised in the face of imperialist aggression; there has never been anything resembling genuine national defense. Rather, the Nationalists’ so-called “maintenance of domestic order and tranquility” has in fact amounted to the suppression of the Chinese people’s revolutionary movement, particularly the offensive campaigns against the Soviet areas and the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army. Chiang Kai-shek, the chief culprit of national betrayal, even transferred sixty to seventy percent of the entire regular army to Jiangxi to launch the Sixth Encirclement Campaign—precisely an act demonstrating the Nationalist Party’s fealty to the imperialists and its role as their scavenger in the partition of China. This very point was specifically emphasized when the Nationalists made their declaration to Japan. Furthermore, the Nationalists went on to declare: “Should any grievances arise in our relations with Japan, we stand ready to rectify them; Sino-Japanese relations can be improved in a manner that takes into account the common aspirations of both countries.” Such statements fully reveal the Nationalist Party’s slavish subservience. Deeply fearful of failing to perform its canine duties adequately and of failing to win the favor of every master, the Nationalists thus grovel before Japanese imperialism. The Central Soviet Government, representing the entire Chinese people and the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army, resolutely opposes the Japanese imperialist attempt to monopolize China and points out… (Two sentences are missing here, as they were indistinct during the radio broadcast—Editor) The only way to secure China’s national independence, freedom, and liberation is for all to rise up in unison. Under the leadership of the Soviet Government, only by crushing the six encirclement campaigns launched by the imperialist-backed Nationalist forces against the Soviet Red Army can we halt the march toward China’s complete colonization and achieve victory for a new socialist China.

(Red China News Agency)