This day, 6 August, in 1946, Chairman Mao Zedong first proposed the “middle ground” theory when he met with American journalist, Anna Louise Strong, in reference to the extremely vast area between the United States and the Soviet Union, in which many capitalist countries, colonial and semi-colonial countries were located. He deeply sympathised with, and paid close attention to, the surging national independence and liberation movements in the world, and demanded to break the monopoly of the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, in world power, and allow China, Europe, Japan and the third world to play a greater role in international affairs.
1946年8月6日的这一天，毛泽东主席在会见美国记者安娜·路易斯·斯特朗时首次提出了“中间地带”理论，当时他提到了美国和苏联之间极其广阔的地区，许多资本主义国家、殖民和半殖民地国家都位于其中。 他深表同情并密切关注世界上民族独立和解放运动的激增，并要求打破美国和苏联这两个超级大国在世界大国中的垄断，让中国、欧洲、日本和第三世界在国际事务中发挥更大的作用。
