In discussions, Zhou was at pains to stress two particular points. First, Japan would have to abandon its “traditional” thoughts of invading and humiliating China, and second, Japan would acknowledge that the War of Resistance (which Wang had, after all, voted for in committee) had been to guarantee the “independence and survival of the nation,” and that if this were achieved peacefully (that is, through negotiation with Japan), then China would have “achieved the goals of the War.”
