A passage added while reviewing "The Chongqing Incident and the Northeast Question"[1]

(February 25, 1946)

The Kuomintang military authorities have gone to great lengths to incorporate the puppet troops in the Northeast, even sending the puppet troops under Jiang Pengfei into Changchun to "recover sovereignty." Why, then, are they determined to annihilate the patriotic armed forces of the Northeast people before they are satisfied?

[1] This is a passage added by Mao Zedong while reviewing the draft editorial "The Chongqing Incident and the Northeast Question" written by Hu Qiaomu for *Liberation Daily*.