After Chiang Kaishek made his so-called foreign policy speech at the Fifth
Congress of the Guomindang, this reporter interviewed the chairman of the
Central Government of the Soviet Republic of China, Mao Zedong. The following is his interview with this reporter:
The crimes committed by the biggest traitor in Chinese history since ancient
times, Chiang Kaishek, in selling out the country are truly innumerable. He sold
out the three provinces in the Northeast; he used machine guns to force the
soldiers who were bravely resisting Japan in Shanghai to retreat; he sold out
Wusong and Shanghai, he sold out Rehe. He signed the Tanggu truce and sold
out Beiping, Tianjin, and Hebei; he acceded to the [X] demands raised by Japan
during the Chahar Incident; he sold out Chahar Province and North China; he
further acceded to the eight great demands recently raised by Japan, which
would lead to the loss of our state and the extinction of our race; he sold out the
whole of North China and all of China; he wants to turn the whole of China into
a colony of Japanese imperialism, and the entire Chinese people into slaves
without a country! In the face of these...¹ monumentally evil facts about selling
out the country, Chiang Kaishek offered the most absurd and shameless defense
before the so-called "Fifth Congress" of the Guomindang!


Chiang Kaishek Defends Japanese Imperialism with All His Might
The savage aggression of Japanese imperialism against China has as its direct
aim to swallow up the territory of all China, and to destroy the Chinese nation.
Every Chinese who regards himself as courageous and upright should exert
himself vigorously to the end in the anti-Japanese struggle which lies before us.
But Traitor Chiang Kaishek, on the contrary, did his best to defend the evil


1. This telegram was addressed to Nie Rongzhen, who was at this time, as indicated
above in a note to the "Order to Destroy the Divisions of Xiao and Xie" of March 5,
1935, political commissar of the First Army Group.


This interview was first published in Hongse Zhonghua (Red China), no. 241, November
25, 1935. We have translated it from a facsimile of that periodical issued in China in
1982. The text is also conveniently available in Mao Zedong ji. Bujuan, Vol. 4, pp.
239-42.
1. Suspension points in original.



Our source for this text is Mao Zedong junshi wenji, Vol. 1, pp. 392-93, where it is
reproduced from a copy in the Central Archives.