Denouncing Chiang Kai-shek’s Absurd and Shameless Treasonous Rhetoric

(November 25, 1935)

The crimes of Chiang Kai-shek, the greatest traitor to the Chinese nation since ancient times, in selling out the country are truly too numerous to count. He sold off the three northeastern provinces; he used machine guns to force the heroic soldiers fighting the Japanese in Shanghai to retreat, selling out Songhu; he sold out Rehe; he signed the Tanggu Agreement, selling out Beiping, Tianjin, and Hebei; he accepted all the demands raised by Japan in the Chahar Incident, selling out Chahar Province and North China; he further accepted the eight major demands recently put forward by Japan, which would doom the nation and extinguish our race, selling out the entire North China and the whole of China. He wants to turn all of China into a colony of Japanese imperialism and make all Chinese people slaves to a conquered nation! In the face of these... heinous and monstrous acts of treason, Chiang Kai-shek had the audacity to offer the most absurd and shameless defense before the so-called "Fifth National Congress" of the Kuomintang!

Chiang Kai-shek Spares No Effort to Defend Japanese Imperialism

The vicious aggression of Japanese imperialism against China aims to directly annex the entire territory of China and destroy the Chinese nation. Any Chinese person with a shred of integrity should resolutely and courageously resist Japan to the end. Yet the traitor Chiang Kai-shek, on the contrary, goes all out to defend the monstrous aggression of Japanese imperialism. He says: "The so-called national movement is by no means solely an external movement," "Between nations, there is absolutely no hatred that cannot be resolved within a hundred years," "Moreover, looking at another matter from another perspective, it seems that Country A and Country B have absolutely no reason to part ways," "Our neighbor to the east, Japan, must also be deeply concerned about peace in East Asia and the welfare of both our nations." What vile and despicable defense of Japanese imperialism this is! Japanese imperialism uses guns,

cannons, and bombs to slaughter our people and sucks our lifeblood, yet he claims that China absolutely harbors no hatred toward Japanese imperialism, that China cannot part with Japan, and that the Japanese executioners are deeply concerned about China's welfare! Is there anything under heaven more absurd and shameless than this? Only the most loyal running dog of Japanese imperialism, a traitor like Chiang Kai-shek, could spout such fawning, devilish nonsense!

Chiang Kai-shek Blames the Chinese People Themselves for the Doom of the Nation and the Extinction of the Race

We Chinese people have the strength to resist the brutal aggression and annexation by Japanese imperialism. By mobilizing the entire population, arming the people, mobilizing the millions-strong army, navy, and air force across China, confiscating the banks and enterprises of Japanese imperialism and the property of traitors, and uniting with all enemies of Japan (the Soviet Union, the world proletariat, the colonial peoples oppressed by Japan, Korea, Taiwan, the proletariat within Japan, etc.) under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, we can certainly defeat Japan and any Japanese imperialism, and drive Japan out of China. The history of the heroic soldiers of the 19th Route Army's war of resistance in Songhu, the years of stubborn resistance by the volunteer armies in Manchuria (despite the Kuomintang's constant suppression and betrayal of them), the years of arduous struggle by the main anti-imperialist force in China, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, against imperialism and the Kuomintang, and Japan's fear of the Chinese people's anti-Japanese struggle... all these clearly prove that China has the strength to resist Japan, to recover lost territories, and to strive for national independence and freedom.

Yet the traitor Chiang Kai-shek, while using every means to pave the way for Japan's aggression and employing all his strength to suppress the anti-Japanese movement, first and foremost by attacking the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, instead claims that China is powerless to resist Japan. He says: "We today must especially engage in sincere self-reflection. Over the past few years, to what extent has the nation truly strived in all spiritual and material construction, in the so-called path of self-reliance and self-strengthening?" "If we only seek a breakthrough on one front (referring to the external front), we will inevitably encounter unexpected setbacks." Without question, Chiang Kai-shek's so-called "spiritual construction" refers to the slave morality promoted by the New Life Movement, and his so-called "material construction" refers to the construction of fortresses, roads, and communications used to attack the Red Army. While Chiang Kai-shek uses all his might to destroy the anti-Japanese forces striving for national independence, he instead claims that China should seek self-reliance and self-strengthening—this is truly absurd to the extreme. Going further, Chiang Kai-shek even shifts the blame for imperialist aggression and his own treason onto the broad masses of the people, saying: "A person must insult himself before others insult him; a nation must attack itself before others attack it." Everything is China's own fault, the people's own fault?! Is there any more unreasonable and shameless raving in the world than this?

Chiang Kai-shek Wants All Chinese People to Be Docile Slaves of Japanese Imperialism

For the benefit of his master, Japanese imperialism, the traitor Chiang Kai-shek blatantly demands that the Chinese people docilely refrain from resisting Japanese imperialist aggression. He tells the people: "We should not quibble over temporary conflicts of interest," "We should not be driven by momentary emotions or partial interests," "All minor issues should be met with the utmost patience," "In this time of national crisis, we can only strive for self-help and self-redemption," "What we seek today is merely self-sincerity toward our own nation and mutual sincerity toward the international community." In this way, Japan's conquest of our nation and extinction of our race are dismissed as "minor issues" (absurdly preposterous devilish talk), and the Chinese people should not care in the slightest. The entire Chinese populace must only endure, must only wait with folded hands for the slaughter and enslavement by imperialism, and docilely become slaves to a conquered nation under the butcher's knife of Japanese imperialism. Chiang Kai-shek telling the people to walk this path to death is truly the heartless, lungless drivel of a traitor.

Chiang Kai-shek Intends to Pursue Treason to the Bitter End

Chiang Kai-shek exerts all his strength to support Japanese imperialist aggression, suppress all anti-Japanese struggles, and tell the entire Chinese people to patiently become slaves to a conquered nation. Moreover, he loudly declares that his treason is consistent and resolute, saying: "I, Chiang Chung-cheng... in plain terms, as long as peace is not utterly hopeless, I will never abandon peace; as long as our own existence has not reached the final critical juncture, I will not lightly speak of sacrifice." The so-called "peace" is nothing but unresisting treason. Thus, Chiang Kai-shek "will never abandon" his treasonous enterprise, intending to pursue treason to the bitter end, and "will never abandon" his position as the chief traitor, intending to cling to it to the bitter end. He wants to exhaust his utmost efforts to be a dead loyal running dog of Japanese imperialism!

The Central Government of the Soviet Republic has already, in its repeated declarations, denounced the traitor Chiang’s treason and proclaimed his death sentence. The Central Government of the Soviet Republic leads the nation’s sole main anti-imperialist force, the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army, and calls upon the entire populace of the nation to mobilize, arm themselves, resist Japan and oppose Chiang, and eliminate this utterly conscienceless and cowardly traitor, Chiang Kai-shek. The Central Government of the Soviet Republic is willing to conclude combat agreements with any armed forces within the country to oppose Chiang, so as to sweep away this great scourge of the Chinese people—Chiang Kai-shek. Only by resolutely eliminating this great traitor and thoroughly waging a national revolutionary war can the Chinese people achieve independence, liberation, and territorial integrity!

On November 24, 1935, under the direction of Japan, the traitor Yin Rugeng declared "independence" in Beijing and established the "East Hebei Autonomous Anti-Communist Committee," attempting to realize the autonomy of the five provinces of North China. The person in the center is Yin Rugeng.