In 1945, when meeting with an observation team from the US, the late Chairman Mao Zedong said that he would like to visit the US and meet with then US President Franklin D. Roosevelt to discuss the landing of US troops on China's terroritory and the future of China, revealed by a report of Global Times.
At the beginning of 1942, Zhou Enlai, then in Chongqing, made active contacts with US officials as John Garter Vincent, John Stewart Service and John Paton Davies and proposed those pragmatic US officials to visit Yan'an, said the report.
On January 23, 1943, John Stewart Service said in his annual report to the US government that "the army of the Chinese Communist Party should not be undervalued" and "the US government should send a delegation to Yan'an, the revolutionary base of the CPC."
Meantime, the US army was considering to land its troop on Chinese northern area to prepare for the final battle against the Japan, to which the support from the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army under the leadership the CPC was extremely important.
On July 22, 1944, the first bail of US observers arrived in Yan'an. Mao Zedong had more than 50 meetings with John Stewart Service and the later made over 100 secret reports concerning Yan'an's politics, economy, military and social life to the US government.
When talking about the relations with the US after the war, Mao admitted that the US would inevitably play an important role in Pacific Region and the US was a key element to prevent the broking out of a civil war in China. "More important, the US is a democratic country, while the Kuomintang has failed to bring democracy to China, only the CPC can make it possible. Therefore, the US and the CPC have the common ground to cooperate with each other."
( April 2, 2002)
