Comrade [Peng] Dehuai:

1. We trust that you have received our last telegram. It is extremely likely that
war will break out between Japan and the Soviet Union, and relations between
China and the Soviet Union will improve.
2. If Japan attacks the Soviet Union, for the purpose of eliminating its enemy in
the rear, the enemy will step up its suppression in North China.
3. Our army must prepare to cooperate with the Soviet Army in combat and
make such preparations right now so that, once the time is ripe, we can take action
immediately. But this kind of coordination is strategic coordination, long-term
coordination, not coordination in a single battle or temporary coordination. Please
consider all questions on this basis.