STATEMENT ON U.S. CHINA-AID BILL
22 June 1946

[Text] The bill providing continued military aid to China submitted by the
U.S. secretary of state on the 14th is most favorable to the peace, security,
independence and democracy of China. Therefore, the Chinese Communist Party
firmly opposes it. This view is supported by the broad democratic masses of
China. In the war to resist Japan, when America rendered military aid to
China and sent troops to Chinese territory to coordinate with China in
combat, the goal was to defeat the common enemy of China and America--
Japanese imperialism. However, even at that time, since America erroneously
rendered aid only to the Kuomintang warlords, such aid did not effectively
reinforce China's resistance. On the contrary, it was used by the
Kuomintang warlords to reinforce their attack on and blockade of the
Chinese Communist Party and the Liberated Areas which actively resisted
Japan. After Japan surrendered, America, instead of discontinuing,
greatly strengthened all types of military aid to the Chinese Kuomintang
government and, with this precise goal, sent hordes of troops to be
stationed on China's territorial land and seas. Its action has been
proved to be the fundamental cause of the outbreak and continuous escalation
of China's civil war. Only on the premise of the U.S. government's
assertion that it would abide by the restrictions on the China issue
contained in the official report of the Moscow three-nation foreign
ministers conference of December 1945 and the Chinese Kuomintang's declaration that it would stop the civil war and implement the resolutions of the
Political Consultative Conference on state democratization did the Chinese
Communist Party agree on certain kinds of U.S. military aid to China.
However, now that this premise has been seriously damaged, the so-called
military aid rendered by America is actually only armed intervention in
China's internal affairs; it represents only vigorous support of the
Kuomintang dictatorial government and an effort to keep China in a
situation of civil war, division, chaos, terror, and poverty; it is
intended only to prevent China from implementing army reorganization and
demobilization and performing its obligations to the United Nations; it
is intended only to endanger China's national security and independence
and its territorial sovereignty; it is designed only to destroy the

glorious friendship between the two great nations of China and America
and the future of their trade. What the Chinese people urgently need
today is not American guns and cannons or American garrisons on Chinese
territory. On the contrary, the Chinese people deeply feel that the
ammunition shipped by America to China is excessive, that the American
forces stationed in China are too large, and that they have created a
tremendous threat to the peace and security of China and the survival and
freedom of the Chinese people. In these realistic conditions, the Chinese
Communist Party cannot but firmly oppose the American Government's
continued delivery of arms to the Kuomintang government of China in the
form of sales, lease, gifts, or assignment; it firmly opposes the sending
of an American military advisory mission to China and firmly demands that
America immediately cease and recover all the so-called military aid to
China and immediately withdraw all its troops from China.

。 "Selections of Mao Tse-tung," Vol 3, 1947 edition

* "Chairman Mao Publishes Announcement Opposing U.S. Military Aid to
China Bill," CHIEH-FANG JIH-PAO, 23 June 1946

* CH'UN CHUNG (Chungking), No 9, Vol 11, 30 June 1946

* "Struggle for Independence, Peace, and Democracy," Shansi-Chahar-Hopeh
Publishing House, August 1946