The never-ending campaign against graft in China
New foot-soldiers are on the way
While he was holed up in caves in Yan’an in 1938, Mao Zedong gave a series of speeches that would form one of his best-known works. In “On Protracted War” he argued that China, which had been invaded by Japan, should not expect a quick victory. It had to dig in for a long struggle.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “Xi’s forever war”
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