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Shanghai as a Front Line in China’s New Civil War

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Shanghai as a Front Line in China’s New Civil War
A residential building during a COVID-19 lockdown in the Jing'an district in Shanghai on April 8, 2022. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images
Gregory Copley
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China’s “new civil war”—with Xi Jinping’s ultra-Maoists pitted against the “moderates” of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the free-wheeling private sector—accelerated with Xi’s lockdown of Shanghai beginning in March.

Gregory Copley
Gregory Copley
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Gregory Copley is president of the Washington-based International Strategic Studies Association and editor-in-chief of the “Defense & Foreign Affairs” series of publications. Born in Australia, Copley is an entrepreneur, writer, government adviser, defense publication editor, and Member of the Order of Australia. His latest and 37th book is “The Noble State: Governance Options in an Ignoble Era.”
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