INTERVIEW WITH THREE CORRESPONDENTS FROM THE CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY, THE SAO TANG PAO AND THE HSIN MIN PAO11The Central News Agency was the official Kuomintang news agency, the Sao Tang Pao was a paper run by military circles in the Kuomintang government, and the Hsin Min Pao was one of the mouthpieces of the national bourgeoisie

This chapter presents proceedings of an interview of Mao Tse-tung with three correspondents from the Central News Agency, the Sao Tang Pao, and the Hsin Min Pao. The interview presented in the chapter discusses questions on War of Resistance and importance of democracy in winning victory in the War of Resistance; the question on restricting alien parties; Communist Party's attitude to what has come to be known as friction; and possibility of a split between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.