Reply to Zhou Enlai[1]

(August 8, 1946)

Chiang’s five points are absolutely unacceptable—not a single one will do. Your reply was quite correct. Our various Liberated Areas are now mobilizing with full force to smash Chiang Kai-shek’s offensive.

[1] This is the main content of a telegram drafted by Mao Zedong for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in reply to Zhou Enlai.