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Send immediately to Comrade Li Xuefeng[121] for handling. Best to send by telegram. Also print for all comrades in the Political Bureau.
All comrades in the Standing Committee have already read it.
Mao Zedong
February 22
[I]
Liu, refers to Liu Shaoqi.
Peng Zhen, then Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee. Yong, refers to Zhou Enlai.
[2]
Li Xuefeng, then Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee.

Critique and Revisions to the Article
"Foreign Minister Chen Yi Answers Questions from Xinhua News Agency Reporter, Refuting Dulles's[1] Slanders Against China"[2]
(February 22, 1959)
Comrade Chen Yi:
Dulles is ill, and recently the U.S. government has not launched many attacks against us. Issuing this statement at present seems inappropriate. Please discuss and decide with the Premier.
Mao Zedong
February 22
[1]
Dulles, then U.S. Secretary of State. Resigned due to illness shortly thereafter.
[2]
This piece was written on Chen Yi's report to Mao Zedong dated February 5, 1959. The report stated: "Two weeks ago we agreed to have the Foreign Minister issue a Q&A-style article [refuting] Dulles. This article was drafted jointly by comrades from Xinhua News Agency and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has been revised three times. I believe this piece can be published, but as the matter is relatively significant, I request your review on whether it can be used." This article was later not published publicly. Sections Two, Three, and Four of this piece are Mao Zedong's revisions to the article. The text printed in Song typeface represents words added and rewritten by Mao Zedong.

Critique and Revisions to the Article "Foreign Minister Chen Yi Answers Questions from Xinhua News Agency Reporter, Refuting Dulles's Slanders Against China"
The achievements of the 1958 Great Leap Forward prove that the people of our country will, in a period that is not very short but also not too long, build our country into a powerful socialist state flourishing economically and culturally.
In the Great Leap Forward, we will naturally encounter some new problems or difficulties. However, these are difficulties in our advance,
even difficulties brought about by our achievements. These difficulties, summed up in one point, are the temporary insufficiency of equipment. This problem can be completely resolved step by step in the course of construction.
Four
Recently, in the Philippines, which is under the tight control of the United States, dissatisfaction with America's arrogant and violent interference is also rising. The Japanese people are also opposed to the U.S. occupation policy. The people of South Korea, the people of South Vietnam, the people of Thailand, the people of Laos, and the people of other countries controlled or threatened by the United States all harbor dissatisfaction with U.S. imperialist policies. The peoples of all the Western Pacific countries do not understand why Americans, situated in a distant place, and for what reason, should come to these countries of the Western Pacific and, using their military, political, economic, and cultural power, exercise control over these countries? Truly, no reason can be given. Therefore, one day, sooner or later, just as the United States must let go and shrink back home from other regions of the world, the United States will certainly also let go and shrink back home from this Western Pacific part of the world. If the Americans themselves