WE SHOULD INCLUDE A DIRECT U.S. MILITARY
INTERVENTION IN OUR BATTLE PLAN*
(January 5, 1949)
In our battle plan we have all along taken into account the possibility of
direct U.S. military occupation of some of China's coastal cities and the
United States fighting with us. We should not yet discard such calculation lest
we become at a loss in such an eventuality. But the stronger and more
determined the Chinese people's revolutionary forces are, the less the possibility of a direct U.S. military intervention, and collaterally maybe the less U.S.
financial and arms aid to the Kuomintang. Over the past year, especially the
last three months, this point has been proved by the vacillation and certain
changes in the attitude of the U.S. government. We must continue to point
out and rectify the wrong view among the Chinese people and in our Party
that overestimates the strength of U.S. imperialism.
(From the original manuscript)
* These are excerpts from "The Present Situation and the Party's Tasks in 1949," an
inner-Party directive drafted by Mao Zedong for the Central Committee of the Communist
Party of China.