1. Chiang Kaishek has pushed us to a position altogether antagonistic to him,
and we no longer have anything to say to each other.
2. The Central Committee has decided to abolish our various administrative
offices step by step and recall their personnel in the same manner. The Eighth
Route Army General Headquarters will no longer submit any reports on paper or
by telegram to Chiang.
3. The Military Commission in Yan'an has issued orders in a statement. Please
distribute it extensively after you have received it.
4. The relationship between the Guomindang and the Communist Party as it is
now is of no use at all to us and to the revolution. But the split was caused by
Chiang, so it is rather to our advantage.
5. The problem is [X]¹ disagreement and has not been resolved after much
toing and froing during the past three months. As a result, we are politically very
much on the offensive at the moment, while, militarily, we have to assume a defensive posture for the time being. We must, however, make active preparations for
the offensive, so that we will be able to take the offensive effectively after four to
six months. During the period of preparation, no large military deployment will be
made in border areas or in northwestern Shanxi in order to avoid creating shocks.
Eighth Route Army personnel are not to make anti-Chiang comments for now.

1. Eleven characters are missing here in the available text.

Our source for this text is Mao Zedong ji. Bujuan, Vol. 6, p. 291, where it is reproduced
from Wannan shibian.