No foreign country or the United Nations shall be allowed to interfere in China’s internal affairs. [1]
(January 19, 1949)
Finally, and most importantly, no foreign country or the United Nations shall be allowed to interfere in China’s internal affairs. Because China is an independent state, matters within Chinese territory shall be resolved by the Chinese people and the people’s government themselves. Should any foreigner raise matters such as foreign governments mediating China’s civil war, such proposals must be completely rejected.
Diplomatic relations. All embassies, legations, consulates, and their affiliated diplomatic agencies and personnel of capitalist countries recognized by the Guomindang government shall, prior to the establishment of formal diplomatic relations between the People’s Republic and these countries, not be recognized by us in any way and shall only be treated as foreign nationals, but they shall be given effective protection. Military attachés of these countries shall be treated in the same manner as diplomatic personnel. However, American military attachés, because they directly aided the Guomindang in fighting the civil war, shall be placed under military surveillance and shall not be granted freedom. As for the embassies, legations, and their affiliated diplomatic agencies and personnel of the Soviet Union and the new democratic countries, because their foreign policies are fundamentally different from those of capitalist
countries, our attitude toward them shall also be fundamentally different from that toward capitalist countries. However, because the People’s Republic has not yet established formal diplomatic relations with them, just as with other foreign countries, we shall only engage in informal diplomatic exchanges with their diplomatic agencies in China for the time being, and the same applies to their military attachés.

Mao Zedong’s manuscript of revisions to the draft directive of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on foreign affairs issues.

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[1] The two passages selected here were added and revised by Mao Zedong while reviewing the draft directive of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on foreign affairs issues.