Conditions for Negotiations
Put Forward by the Guomindang
(October 17, 1936, 4:00 P.M.)

To Zhu [De], Zhang [Guotao], Xu [Xiangqian], Chen [Changhao], He [Long],
Ren [Bishi], Guan [Xiangying], and Liu [Bocheng], and for the information of
Peng [Dehuai]:

1. The negotiations with Nanjing have taken a critical downward turn. The
third Nanjing liaison representative returned to Xi'an on the 14th bearing the
following Guomindang conditions:
a. The soviet areas are allowed to exist.
b. The name of the Red Army will not be changed to allied army, and it will
receive the same treatment as the national army.
c. Representatives of the Communist Party will participate publicly in the
national congress.
d. People are immediately to be delegated for concrete negotiations.
2. Chiang Kaishek arrived in Xi'an on the 16th, and for our formal negotiations Chiang is sending a plane to Yan'an to take [Zhou] Enlai to Xi'an to talk
directly with Chiang.
3. In order basically to stop Hu Zongnan's attack, or to delay the date of his
attack, please quickly print a large number of copies of Zedong's statement of
the 15th and have small detachments send most of them directly to the various
Guomindang army units, primarily those of Hu Zongnan and Zhu Shaoliang.
Also have [Xu] Xiangqian write to Hu, enclosing a copy of Zedong's statement,
and send someone specially to take it via Jingning to Hu (defense of Jingning is
already undertaken by Hu's forces). Looking forward to a quick response with
your views.

Luo[fu] [Mao] Ze[dong] Zhou [Enlai]

Our source for this text is the 1985 annual compendium of Wenxian he yanjiu, p. 191.