Second Chinese Civil War
Second Chinese Civil War
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaTemplate:Infobox military conflict The Second Chinese Civil War, or Guichou Revolution was a multi-party civil war in the former People's Republic of China (PRC) fought over the control of leadership for the Chinese Party of China (CPC), fought between the supporters of Xi Jinping, then General Secretary of the CPC and President of the PRC, and the alliance (named the "Revolutionary Ring" by Xi Jinping as a disparaging remark) between Li Keqiang and Li Zuocheng, then Premier of the PRC and Chief of the CMC Joint Staff Department respectively. The war was sparked by the ideological differences between Jinping and Keqiang over the bursting of the Chinese housing bubble in 2020 and the following global economic recession, the handling of the Indo-Pakistani war of 2021 and cross-Strait relations in the wake of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the emergence of the coronavirus disease.
The burst of the Chinese housing bubble, which was followed by the 2020 global recession, had intensified the inner-party politics of the CPC. The party was splintered into 2 primary factions, those who supported the relaxation of cross-Strait relations strategy, anti-Indian economic policies, and economic recovery plans of Xi Jinping, or, the direct intervention in the Indo-Pakistani war on Pakistan’s behalf, intensification of cross-Strait relations, and the economic reform program proposal of Li Keqiang.
Many Chinese citizens who were forced into eviction, foreclosure, unemployment, and the shutting down of their businesses had idealized Xi Jinping as a guideful and strong leader, but he and his administrations failure to prevent the housing bubble's collapse and its inital lack of action in the face of the recession caused a dramatic decrease of popularity of him among the Chinese. This political undermining of Jinping emboldened many Chinese politicans, local and national, to stop toeing the strategy line presented by the United Front in exchange for political power among the civilian populace. Before, the United Front only had ideological divisions in salient or low sensitivity issues, operating as a rubber stamp for the CPC, but the recession had caused noticeable rifts within both the CPC and other United Front parties.