Analysis on the Background and Historical Influence of the Party's Four Guarantees

摘要

At the moment of national crisis, the Communist Party of China put forward the "four guarantees" on the premise of "five demands" to the Kuomintang in the early 1937, reflecting the urgency of China's Anti Japanese war. After the Xi'an Incident, Jiang Jieshi and the Kuomintang government were also adjusting the policies toward Japan, and seriously preparing for the Anti Japanese. As the Communist Party of China put forward the "four assurances", the Kuomintang's domestic policy began a significant change, that Jiang Jieshi fully suspended the military action of the encirclement of the Red Army, marking that the Communist Party of China's "resisting against Japan combining with the KMT" took the first step. This paper argues that the proposal of the "four assurances" stopped the pace of the conflict between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China, and accelerated the pace of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China, which not only had great historical significance, but also had great practical significance.