Under the changed circumstances following the Xi'an Incident's peaceful conclusion, the National Government announced that it was ceasing its campaign to eradicate the communists. In fact this was a reversal of the long followed policy of achieving internal unity before dealing with the external aggressor.
西安事變和平結束之後，由於形勢上的變化，國民政府宣佈停止剿共，事實上是改變了長期以來所執行攘外必先安內的政策。