Reply to Dong Biwu’s Telegram[1]

(September 26, 1943)

Your actions in the People’s Political Council were correct. Chiang Kai-shek’s deployment of troops to the periphery of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region is entirely directed against us. Chiang’s so-called political settlement is a deception; at least at present, he has no such intention.

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