He came to believe that the Red Army alone was unable to defeat the Japanese, and that a Communist-led "government of national defence" should be formed with the KMT and other "bourgeois nationalist" elements to achieve this goal.
Han kom frem til at den Røde Hær alene ikke var i stand til at besejre japanerne, og at en kommunistledet "regering af det nationale forsvar" skulle dannes med KMT og andre "bourgeois nationalistiske" elementer for at opnå dette mål.