Reply to Zhou Enlai’s Telegram[1]

(January 8, 1942)

Our policy is to consolidate our own position and calmly wait for changes in the situation.

Within this year, Germany and Italy will decline, Japan will continue to rise, Britain and the United States will be weakened, and the Kuomintang will split.

[1] This is the main content of Mao Zedong’s telegram in reply to Zhou Enlai.