| 26. According to Sergei N. Goncharov and others, Soviet leaders worried that the CCP's entrance into the Northeast might damage relations between the Soviet Union and its allies. See Sergei N. Goncharov, John W. Lewis, and Xue Litai, Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao and the Korean War (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1993), 10.
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| 27. "Guo Liu guanyu hongjun bu peihe wojun xingdong shi zhi Cheng Geng dian" [Guo and Liu's cable to Cheng and Geng on Red Army noncooperation with our activities], August 20, 1945, CCA.
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| 28. "Zhongyang guanyu Dongbei qingkuang ji yu Sujun daibiao tanpan wenti de tongbao" [The Central Committee on the Northeast situation and the negotiations with the Soviet military representatives], September 14, 1945, CCA.
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| 29. Ibid.
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| 30. U.S. Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States [hereafter FRUS ], 1945, vol. 7. The Far East, China (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Of-rice, 1969), 973-4.
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| 31. "Jia Yi guanyu choudiao zhuli sanshiwan kongzhi Dongbei zhi Bing Ding dian" [Jia and Yi's cable to Bing and Ding on sending 300,000 troops to control the Northeast], October 5, 1945; "Dongbei ju guanyu yu Sujun jiaoshe jingguo gel Zhonggong Zhongyang de baogao" [The report of the Northeast Bureau to the CCP CC on contacts with the Soviet military], October 8, 1945, both in CCA.
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| 32. "Zhonggong Zhongyang guanyu peibei yibai ge tuan de ganbu jinru Dongbei de zhishi" [Instructions of the CCP CC on sending cadres of 100 regiments to the Northeast], September 15, 1945, CCA; "Zhongyang guanyu queding xiangbei tuijin xiangnan fangyu de zhanlue fangzhen zhi Zhonggong fuyu tanpan daibiao tuan dian" [CC to the CCP delegation to Chongqing on confirming the strategic policy of advancing in the north and defending in the south], September 17, 1945, in Zhonggong Zhongyang wenjian xuanji, vol. 15, 278-90; "Muqian renwu he zhanlue bushu" [Current tasks and strategic arrangement], September 19, 1945, Liu Shaoqi xuanji, vol. 1, 371-2.
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| 33. "Junwei guanyu zhengduo Dongbei de zhanlue fangzhen yu juti bushu de zhishi" [Instruction of the Military Committee on the strategic policy of seizing the Northeast and concrete applications], September 28, 1945, in Zhonggong Zhongyang wenjian xuanji, vol. 15, 299-301.
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