Telegram to Zhu De, Peng Dehuai, and Ren Bishi[1]

(January 14, 1938)

The Communist International has instructed our Party not to participate in the Nationalist government at this time. Participation in the organs of political power in North China is, of course, also inappropriate.

[1] This is the main content of a telegram sent by Mao Zedong and Luo Fu (Zhang Wentian) to Zhu De, Peng Dehuai, and Ren Bishi.