No foreign country should continue to maintain relations with the fugitive Kuomintang government[1]

(June 3, 1949)

The United States may take advantage of the continued existence of the fugitive Kuomintang government to propose a peace treaty with Japan. When Huang Hua meets with Stuart, he may point out to Stuart that we have long declared that we do not recognize the reactionary Kuomintang government as qualified to represent the Chinese people. Now that the Kuomintang government has fled and will soon be completely eliminated, no foreign country should continue to maintain relations with that fugitive government, still less discuss the issue of a peace treaty with Japan with it. Otherwise, we and the entire Chinese people will resolutely oppose it.

[1] This is a passage added by Mao Zedong when reviewing and revising the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China’s reply telegram to the Nanjing Municipal Committee, with copies to the East China Bureau and the Shanghai Municipal Committee, regarding the handling of Leighton Stuart’s return to the United States.