The 100th Anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, and the Relationship between Korea and China
The centenary of the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party, and the 70th anniversary of the founding of China. Often, we say that we need to know about the Communist Party of China in order to understand modern China. Founded in 1921, the Chinese Communist Party won the struggle with Japan and the Kuomintang Chinese Nationalist Party and established the People's Republic of China in 1949. In other words, China is maintained based on a system in which political party establish and govern a state. At the 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party held in 2017, Xi Jinping declared that China had reached ‘the New Age’. He compared the era of Mao Zedong which caused China to rise, and the era of Deng Xiaoping which made China rich, in a similar position to his own. China, a neighboring country that has been changing and adapting for 100 years and is achieving 'Chinese dream' as a world power. To understand them correctly and to find solutions to the issues of Korea-China relations, I met and talked with Professor Cho Young-nam, an authority on modern Chinese political research.
Cho Young-nam, Professor of Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University