WE MUST NOT STOP CRITICIZING
THE U.S. POLICY OF SUPPORTING CHIANG
KAI-SHEK AGAINST THE COMMUNISTS*
(July 30, 1945)
Not long ago the U.S. embassy tried to advise us not to criticize Chiang
Kai-shek. Now they have stopped doing so, but turned around to advise us not
to criticize Hurley.* The U.S. press, so often criticizing foreign heads of state,
carried sharp criticism of Chiang Kai-shek last year, so why can't we Chinese
criticize Hurley? Once Hurley criticized the Communist Party of China,
putting Chinese Communists on a par with the warlords, and referring to the
entire Party in his criticism, so why can't the Communist Party criticize him?
In our criticism we draw a clear distinction between the U.S. government and
the American people, between persons in the U.S. government who decide
China policy and other staff, and between wrong policies of the U.S.
government and its correct ones. We shall stop criticizing the U.S. government
once it changes its current policy of supporting Chiang Kai-shek against the
Communists; otherwise, there is no chance that our criticism will end. Please
explain the above to those who are concerned.
(From the original manuscript)
*This is the major part of a telegram from Mao Zedong to Xu Bing and Zhang Ming
(Liu Shaowen).