Reply to Zhou Enlai’s Telegram[1]

(June 17, 1942)

In addition to deploying reconnaissance and making military preparations, please immediately approach Liu Weizhang to engage in conciliatory maneuvers.

[1] This is the main content of Mao Zedong’s telegram in reply to Zhou Enlai regarding Chiang Kai-shek’s preparations to launch an anti-communist civil war.