On the 14th of this month, the U.S. Department of State submitted to Congress for consideration a bill to continue military aid to China, which would have an extremely adverse impact on China’s peace, stability, and independent democracy. Accordingly, the Communist Party of China firmly opposes this legislation. This position of the CPC is also supported by broad democratic forces throughout China.

During the War of Resistance Against Japan, the United States provided military assistance to China and dispatched U.S. forces to conduct joint operations on Chinese soil, with the aim of defeating the common enemy of China and the United States—Japanese imperialism. However, at that time, because the United States erroneously limited its aid solely to the Nationalist warlords, such assistance failed to effectively strengthen China’s resistance. On the contrary, it was used by the Nationalist warlords to intensify their attacks and blockades against the Chinese Communist Party and the liberated areas, which were actively fighting the Japanese invaders.

Following Japan’s surrender, the United States not only failed to cease but instead dramatically escalated all forms of military aid to the Nationalist government of China. To further this objective, it deployed a large-scale military presence in China’s territory and territorial waters. These actions have been proven to be the root cause of the outbreak and subsequent escalation of a large-scale civil war in China. The CPC had previously expressed no objection to certain U.S. military assistance to China only under two conditions: first, that the U.S. government would abide by the provisions of the communiqué issued at the Moscow Foreign Ministers’ Conference in November 1945 concerning the Chinese question; and second, that the Kuomintang would declare an end to the civil war and implement the resolutions of the Political Consultative Conference on the democratization of the country. However, both of these conditions have now been gravely undermined. Therefore, the so‑called “military aid” being provided by the United States today constitutes nothing more than armed intervention in China’s internal affairs—a forceful support for the Nationalist dictatorship that continues to plunge China into civil war, division, chaos, terror, and poverty; prevents China from demobilizing its armed forces and fulfilling its obligations to the United Nations; jeopardizes China’s national security, independence, and territorial integrity; and undermines the glorious friendship between the Chinese and American peoples as well as the prospects for the development of Sino–U.S. trade.

What the Chinese people urgently need today is not American guns and ammunition or the continued stationing of U.S. troops on Chinese soil. On the contrary, they keenly feel that far too much U.S. arms have already been delivered to China and that there are already far too many U.S. military personnel stationed there, all of which pose a grave and immense threat to China’s peace and stability and to the very survival and freedom of the Chinese people.

Under these circumstances, the Communist Party of China is compelled to resolutely oppose the U.S. government’s continued transfer of weapons to the Nationalist dictatorship in China through sales, leases, gifts, or other means; to firmly reject the dispatch of U.S. military advisory missions to China; and to demand that the United States immediately halt and revoke all so‑called “military aid” to China and promptly withdraw its forces from Chinese territory.