9.7 Zhang Xueliang's Speech

9.7 Zhang Xueliang's Xi'an Incident speech This document was composed by Zhang Xueliang as a speech on December 13th, 1936, and refers to China's civil war after Mukden Incident. As a result that Jiang Jieshi advocated the policy of " resist foreign aggression after stabilizing the country" and gave his order of non-resistance to Japan. Zhang Xueliang engineered Xi'an incident and wrote this document to demonstrate his motivations of kidnapping Jiang Jieshi. The direct reason that triggered Zhang to take his action is Jiang's radical words and actions to people in the patriotic event. Such as arresting leaders of the patriotic event and suppressing the student movement, and this became the outburst of Xi’an Incident. However, the primary