Comments and Revisions on the People’s Daily Editorial Draft “Let Us See How They Will Act” [1]
(October 9, 1958)
To Comrade Wu Lengxi:
It’s not very good, but just passable.
Mao Zedong
6:00 a.m., October 9
Matters within China should be handled by the Chinese people themselves. Our civil war has already lasted thirty years. During these thirty years, there were only a couple of years without fighting; for the rest of the time, it was all consumed in large and small
This second and third sections consist of two passages that Mao Zedong revised while reviewing the People’s Daily editorial “Let Us See How They Will Act.” The text typeset in Song typeface represents words added or altered by Mao Zedong. The editorial was published in the October 11, 1958 issue of the People’s Daily.
[2]
Wu Lengxi,
who at that time served as President of the Xinhua News Agency and Editor-in-Chief of the People’s Daily.

wars.
It appears that the issue still requires further observation and testing; we are still quite a long way from reaching a resolution. After all, imperialism is imperialism, and reactionaries are reactionaries. Let us simply watch to see exactly how they will act!