1958 12 1 During the Sixth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee, Mao Zedong published the article "Are imperialism and all reactionaries real tigers?" He pointed out: "In essence, in the long run, strategically speaking, imperialism and all reactionaries must be regarded as paper tigers truthfully. Establish our strategic thinking from this point. " Since then, "all reactionaries are paper tigers" and "imperialism and all reactionaries are paper tigers" have become the slogan of China people's ideological and strategic contempt for all seemingly powerful enemies. All reactionaries are paper tigers. From a long-term and strategic point of view, all reactionaries are old paper before the people's just forces.

The tiger will eventually be defeated by the resistance of the people of Wang Yang, and we must establish confidence in winning in the face of powerful reactionaries; Realistically and tactically, reactionaries generally have superior resources and powerful tools of violence, and they are also real tigers. In the struggle against reactionaries, we should attach great importance to the use of tactics and defeat them patiently and strategically. Later, it was widely used in people's work and life, treating daily difficulties, setbacks and challenges as paper tigers. 1, qualitative analysis of progress and response, from the world to the Soviet Union and the United States, and from China to the * * * production party and the Kuomintang;

2. Analyze and compare personnel, strategic command, tactical application and weapons in specific wars.

"The atomic bomb is a paper tiger used by American reactionaries to scare people. It looks terrible, but it's not. Of course, the atomic bomb is a weapon of mass destruction, but it is the people who decide the outcome of the war, not one or two new weapons. "

"All reactionaries are paper tigers. The truly powerful force does not belong to reactionaries, but to the people. "

"As far as China is concerned, we rely on millet plus rifles, but history will prove that this millet plus rifles is better than Chiang Kai-shek's planes and tanks. Although under the joint attack of U.S imperialism and China reactionaries, the people of China and China will suffer many difficulties for a long time, these reactionaries will fail one day, and we will win one day. This truth is nothing more than that reactionaries represent reaction and we represent progress. " -Excerpt from Conversation with American journalist anna louise strong (August 6th, 1946), Selected Works of Mao Zedong, Volume IV.