 Mao and Zhou would retain their positions within the CCP until their deaths in 1976.During the seventh congress of the Comintern, held in August 1936, Wang Ming issued an anti-Fascist manifesto, indicating that the CCP's previous policy of "opposing Chiang Kai-shek and resisting Japan" was to be replaced by a policy of "uniting with Chiang Kai-shek to resist Japan".Zhou was instrumental in carrying out this policy.