Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution in China in response to

After the Great Leap Forward, Chinese leaders introduced economic changes to help the economy recover, including allowing more individual incentives and private activity. Mao saw these policies as a threat to social equality and to communist ideals, and used the Cultural Revolution to attack their supporters and reassert his authority. Therefore, the best answer is “new economic policies that threatened social equality.”

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