Telegram to Liu Shaoqi Regarding the Dispatch of Our Country’s Representative to the United Nations, Among Other Matters (January 13, 1950)  Comrade Shaoqi:  (1) I concur with the telegram of January 13 in fully implementing the requisition order for foreign barracks and in being prepared to allow the United States to withdraw all its former legations in China.  (2) I agree that the Shanghai Military Control Commission should directly take over or requisition the materials left in Shanghai by the U.S. Economic Cooperation Administration [1].  (3) As for the issue of taking over the assets left in Hong Kong by the puppet government, please make a decision after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Central Financial and Economic Commission have put forward their respective proposals; I have no opinion on this matter.  (4) Vyshinsky [2] will come to discuss the situation tonight.
He suggests that our country send a telegram to the United Nations proposing the dispatch of its own representative to attend the UN in place of the Kuomintang representative.
At present, there is intense contention in the Security Council over the Kuomintang representative: the Soviet Union supports our statement calling for the expulsion of the Kuomintang delegate, while the United States, Britain, and most other countries oppose such expulsion.
Therefore, China needs to make a further statement.
However, we may delay sending the telegram for another week.
I approve his suggestion.
Please have the Central Committee consider and inform me of the chief candidate for the delegation; once Enlai arrives here, we can deliberate and decide together.  (5) I will not be leaving today.
Instead, I will depart for Leningrad at 10 p.m. tomorrow (the 14th), spend one day in Leningrad on the 15th, and return on the 16th.
My companions will be Jiaxiang, Boda, Shizhe, and Wang Dongxing [3]. Ye Zilong [4] and the technical personnel will remain here to continue their work.

The Central Committee may continue to send telegrams as usual.

Mao Zedong, 10 p.m. on January 13, based on the manuscript.

Notes  [1] Refers to materials previously held in Shanghai by the Chinese branch of the U.S. Economic Cooperation Administration, intended to aid Chiang Kai-shek in the civil war.

[2] Vyshinsky was then the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union.

[3] Jiaxiang refers to Wang Jiaxiang, who at the time served as China’s Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
Boda refers to Chen Boda, who was then Deputy Minister of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee and Vice President of the Marx–Lenin Institute.
Shizhe was then Director of the CPC Central Compilation and Translation Bureau.
Wang Dongxing was then Chief of the Guard Division of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee.

[4] Ye Zilong was then Mao Zedong’s secretary.