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Statement of the Central Committee of the
Chinese Communist Party, 1 February 1947

The Political Consultative Conference, comprising They furthermore request or permit foreign military
all major political parties, groups and prominent and other personnel to participate in organization,
social figures, convened on January 10, 1946 in training, transportation and military operations of
accordance with stipulations of the summary of land, air and naval forces of the country, and to
Kuomintang-Communist talks in Chungking on become conversant with military and other state
October 10, 1945, is universally recognized by the secrets of the country.They also permit such serious
people of the entire country and world powers as the matters as foreign intervention in internal affairs.
highest political body in China. Until China has a Those measures of the Chinese Kuomintang gov-
really democratic national parliament, all important ernment are completely contrary to the will of the
internal and diplomatic affairs which would be Chinese people and they have plunged and will con-
passed by a parliament in democratic countries tinue to plunge China into civil war, reaction,
should pass through this Conference or obtain agree- national disgrace, loss of national rights, coloniza-
ment of major political parties and groups before they tion and crises of chaos and collapse. In order to res-
can be regarded as effective. cue the motherland from this calamity, to protect
Since January 10, 1946, however, Chinese Kuom- national rights and interests and the dignity of the
ingtang government has not only enacted many arbi- Political Consultative Conference, the Chinese Com-
trary domestic measures but has also many times munist Party solemnly states: this party will not
singly conducted diplomatic negotiations of a serious either now nor in the future recognize any foreign
nature with certain foreign governments...These loans, any treaties which disgrace the country and
diplomatic negotiations include loans from foreign strip away its rights, and any of the above-mentioned
governments, continuation of Lend-Lease, buying agreements and understandings established by the
and accepting of munitions and surplus war mate- Kuomintang government after January 10, 1946,
rials, forming of treaties regarding special rights in nor will it recognize any future diplomatic negotia-
commerce, navigation, aviation and other economic tions of the same character which have not been
and legal special rights. passed by Political Consultative Conference or
These negotiations and agreements request or which have not obtained agreement of this party
permit foreign land, sea and naval forces to be sta- and other parties and groups participating in the
tioned in or operate on the seas, waterways, territo- Political Consultative Conference.
ries, and in the air of the country, and to enter or Source: U.S. relations with China with special reference to the period 1944–1949
occupy and jointly construct or make use of military (pp. 719–720). (1949). Department of State Publication No. 3573. Washington, DC:
Government Printing Office.
bases and points strategic to the national defense.

elected president, the mandate of heaven with the doc- carried the revolution to its next stage.The revolution of
trine of popular sovereignty, and the old type of Con- the 1920s was nominally led by Sun Yat-sen and his
fucian scholar-official with “modern men,” whether revived National People’s Party (Guomindang, usually
trained in Western-style universities or modern military translated as Nationalist Party), but it mobilized much
academies. broader and more radical social forces than had the rev-
olution in 1911.
The Nationalist The radicalism grew from several sources. First, there
Revolution, 1927 was the disappointment with the results of 1911 as the
It was these modern men—and, with the growth of country fell into political chaos and remained under the
coeducation in the new schools, some women too—who domination of the foreign imperialist powers. Second,