Dispatch to Liu Shaoqi Regarding the
Estimate of the Situation After the
"January 17" Order

(January 23, 1941)

1. [Paragraph 1 is missing in the original, as noted by the editors of the 1982
collection.]
2. Chiang Kaishek's order of January 17 marks the beginning of a sudden emergency on a national scale, the start of all-around capitulation, and the breakup of
the whole country. Our estimate made before December 17 is no longer applicable.