Manifesto of the Central Committee of the
Chinese Communist Party on the Current
Political Situation on the Occasion of the
Third Anniversary of the War of Resistance

(July 5, 1940)

Fellow countrymen of all China, officers and men, and comrades in the War of
Resistance of all parties and factions!

On this third anniversary of the great War of Resistance, the Central Committee of
the Chinese Communist Party expresses, with the utmost sincerity and warmth,
national-revolutionary salutations to compatriots of the whole nation, the officers
and men on the battlefront, and the comrades in the War of Resistance from all
parties and factions. It sends immeasurable condolences to the martyrs who have
given their lives for the country over the past three years and extends heartfelt
regards to our wounded officers and men as well as our compatriots who have
been killed.

The three heroic years of the War of Resistance have proved that Japanese
imperialists will inevitably collapse, China will assuredly never perish, and final
victory will certainly belong to our Chinese nation. This is because Japanese imperialism has already been greatly weakened in our three heroic years of the War
of Resistance, the will to carry on China's War of Resistance to the end has already been firmly established in the minds of the whole nation, and changes in the
current international situation are basically favorable to China.

At the same time, however, an unprecedentedly difficult period in the War of
Resistance has arrived. Japanese imperialism has just stepped up its offensive against
China and announced its Eastern Monroe Doctrine. Some people on China's anti-
Japanese front are beginning to waver, while, as regards international plots, it is
possible that the German and Italian policy of reconciliation may replace the British, American, and French policy of a Far Eastern Munich.

Japanese imperialism's intensified offensive against China is operating in concert with the airplanes and big guns of Hitler and Mussolini, in an attempt to achieve

This manifesto, first published in Xin Zhonghua bao, July 5, 1940, was drafted by Mao (see
Nianpu, Vol. 2, p. 196). Our source is Mao Zedong ji, Vol. 7, pp. 249-54.