Date: September 1, 1970
Source: Peking Review #36, archived at massline.org
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Hanoi
Comrade Ton Duc Thang,
President of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam,
Comrade Le Duan,
First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Viet Nam Workers' Party,
Comrade Truong Chinh,
Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam,
Comrade Pham Van Dong,
Premier of the Government of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam,
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the proclamation of independence of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam, we, on behalf of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese Government and people, extend the warmest congratulations to the Viet Nam Workers' Party, the Government of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam and the Vietnamese people.
The Vietnamese people have traversed a glorious fighting course over the past 25 years. Under the wise leadership of the Vietnamese people's great leader President Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Nam Workers' Party, the Vietnamese people have been continuously waging revolutionary wars to defeat wars of aggression launched by imperialism, winning one brilliant victory after another. Particularly in the last decade and more, the south Vietnamese people, displaying revolutionary heroism, have resisted the most barbarous war of aggression launched by U.S. imperialism and badly battered the U.S. aggressors, while the people in northern Viet Nam have victoriously resisted U.S. imperialist aggression and scored outstanding achievements in socialist construction. The great victory of the Vietnamese people's war against U.S. aggression and for national salvation has set a brilliant example for the people of the world in their revolutionary struggles against imperialism.
At present, the three Indo-Chinese peoples' war against U.S. aggression and for national salvation has entered a new stage, and the situation is getting better and better. Responding to the militant call of the Summit Conference of the Indo-Chinese Peoples, the peoples of Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia, uniting closely and growing ever stronger in the course of fighting, have dealt telling blows at the U.S. aggressors and their lackeys and continuously won new victories on all the battlefields of Indo-China. The excellent situation in the three Indo-Chinese peoples' war against U.S. aggression and for national salvation has greatly inspired and supported the peoples of the world in their revolutionary struggles. A new upsurge in the struggle against the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs is emerging throughout the world.
In order to extricate itself from its difficult position in Indo-China, U.S. imperialism is pushing its counter-revolutionary dual tactics even more undisguisedly; while persistently expanding the war, it is plotting all kinds of schemes and machinations, in a vain attempt to stamp out the raging flames of the three Inde-Chinese peoples' war against U.S. aggression and for national salvation. However, the peoples of Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia who have long been tempered cannot be cowed or duped, and all U.S. imperialist schemes and machinations are doomed to failure.
The Chinese people have always regarded it as their bounden internationalist duty to support and assist the three Indo-Chinese peoples in their war against U.S. aggression and for national salvation. We believe that the Vietnamese people and the peoples of Laos and Cambodia, strengthening their unity, supporting and assisting each other and persevering in protracted people's war, will certainly overcome the difficulties on the road of advance and drive all the US. aggressors out of Indo-China. The Chinese people and the peoples of Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia are brothers and comrades-in-arms. We will always unite together, fight together and triumph together.
Victory surely belongs to the heroic Vietnamese people and Indo-Chinese peoples!
Mao Tsetung,
Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China,
Lin Piao,
Vice-Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China,
Chou En-lai,
Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China
September 1, 1970