Cooperation Has Essentially Been Established
Between the Guomindang and
the Communist Party
(March 7, 1937)1
Fuchun:
What you heard is not true,2 but the negotiations are getting down to concrete
details, and cooperation has essentially been established between the
Guomindang and the Communist Party. The policies of the Guomindang are in
the process of changing.
Mao, in reply

Our source for this text is Wenxian he yanjiu, no. 4 (1985) (p. 213 of the annual volume).
1. The time when this telegram was transmitted is indicated by a character signifying
between 9:00 and 11:00 P. M.
2. In a telegram of March 6 to Mao, Li Fuchun said he had heard that a national
defense committee had been organized in Nanjing, and that Chiang Kaishek, as
commander, would have Yan Xishan, Zhang Xueliang, and Zhu De as his deputies. Mao
would be chairman of Gansu Province, and the Red Army would have nine divisions.