Comments on Internal Materials [I]
(January 1960)

Comrades read and return to Mao.
Well worth reading.
I
This piece is written on the table of contents page of this internal material, compiled and printed on January 12, 1960. Before the titles of three articles—"The Chiang Clique Anxious That 1960 Will Be a Difficult Year," "Around New Year's Day the U.S. Again Successively Put Forward Various Proposals to Promote 'Two Chinas,'" and "U.S. Special Agent Tang Shengkao Fails to Win Over Chen Cheng"—Mao Zedong added emphasis marks and wrote a comment, namely Piece II of this text; Pieces III and IV are both written within the article "The Chiang Clique Anxious That 1960 Will Be a Difficult Year."

These few sentences are worth noting.
III
IV
Extremely worth noting.
[1]
The article "The Chiang Clique Anxious That 1960 Will Be a Difficult Year" states that around New Year's Day, upper-echelon members of the Chiang clique and official newspapers successively commented on the trends of the international situation in 1960, in a tone of extreme despondency. Among them, the Taipei Dahua Evening News, belonging to the Chiang Ching-kuo faction, wrote: "The sharper the East-West confrontation and the more tense the situation, the more advantageous it is for us; conversely, under circumstances of gentle breezes and frequent negotiations, our position cannot avoid being constrained." "In a series of international negotiations, our status and rights and interests may be implicated," which will "constitute a psychological disturbance for us." Beside these sentences, Mao Zedong added emphasis marks and wrote this comment.
[2]
The article "The Chiang Clique Anxious That 1960 Will Be a Difficult Year" states that the Chiang clique fears it will be difficult to continue illegally occupying the United Nations seat. Relevant Guomindang newspapers in Taiwan believe that "within the next five to ten years, approximately thirty independent countries may emerge on the African continent," and Africa's seats in the United Nations may surpass those of Latin America, yet currently only three African countries maintain diplomatic relations with the Chiang clique, while the majority have diplomatic relations with the mainland. Therefore, the Chiang clique's diplomacy toward Africa "contains immense danger." Beside this passage, Mao Zedong added emphasis marks and wrote this comment.