I was a journalist in the past, ran newspapers, and worked as a primary school teacher, but I simply didn’t know how to fight and never attended a military academy. Who taught me how to fight? Chiang Kai-shek, by using murderous methods, forced us to take up arms and fight them, and that’s how I learned to fight. People call me a "warmonger," and that’s absolutely correct—I fought for twenty-two years. I still want to fight now, but not by going out to fight; rather, I want the enemy to come in and fight.

Now we must prepare for war. If we prepare, perhaps war won’t break out; if we don’t prepare, when war breaks out, we’ll be caught off guard. This point needs to be publicized among the people. It seems the imperialists are preparing to fight; otherwise, the arms dealers wouldn’t be making their fortunes. They think they will win, but in reality, if war breaks out, it will be to our advantage, and they will certainly be defeated—this is something they haven’t calculated. The Second World War produced a China and many socialist countries, produced an Indonesia and dozens of nationalist countries. If a third world war is fought, imperialism will be finished. In the world, it is always those without weapons who defeat those with weapons, and in the course of war, those without weapons will build independent land, sea, and air forces.