Comments on the Draft Editorial
“Unite on the Basis of the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement”

(January 25, 1963)

Comrade Xiaoping:[1]
The draft editorial[2] sent on the 24th has been read. It is very well written and can be published.

Mao Zedong
January 25, 11:00 p.m.

**Notes**
[1] Xiaoping, i.e., Deng Xiaoping, then General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
[2] Refers to the draft editorial of *Renmin Ribao* (*People’s Daily*), “Unite on the Basis of the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement,” sent by Deng Xiaoping for Mao Zedong’s review. This editorial was published in *Renmin Ribao* on January 27, 1963.

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Facsimile of Mao Zedong’s letter to Deng Xiaoping.