Strenuous Efforts Should Be Made to
Consolidate and Stand Undefeated in
the Next Three Years
(June 1, 1943)
Comrade [Peng] Dehuai:
1. I have received your telegram of May 25 and agree with your method of
handling Tainan.1
2. The Guomindang lacks any appropriate policies to deal with the enemy, the
foreigners (Britain and the United States), the Communist Party, the people, and
its own party (their Central Committee and localities, the CC Clique,2 and the
Renaissance Society3), and crises are increasing every day. Nor does it have any
countermeasure at all with which to react to Tōjō [Hideki]’s4 new policy of
supporting Wang [Jingwei]5 while toppling Chiang [Kaishek], the number of
people who have surrendered is increasing, and their fighting capacity is greatly
reduced. Britain and the United States continue to concentrate their strength on
Germany, and there is very little aid to China. They make empty promises. The
Guomindang has no solutions. It is very suspicious of us, and it is unwilling to
deal with the issues. Every day it publicizes the “crimes” of our Party, attacks our
Party’s prestige, and makes strong efforts to spy on us in attempts to destroy our
Party from within. These are its only methods. Mass uprisings broke out on a
large scale in Gansu, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Shaanxi, and the Guomindang has
no solution except to suppress them. The disputes within their party are endless
and growing. All of this puts the situation of the War of Resistance in an
increasingly difficult position. We need to be prepared for the War of Resistance
to last for three more years, and we should pay close attention to China’s