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The Chinese Communist Party was founded in 1921, and the People's Republic of China was establish in 1949. For 28 years, the party has been replacing the role of the state. The party not only plays the role of the state, but also penetrates social activities, corporate management, and personal life. For Chinese, the Chinese Communist Party is like a faith. In fact, it is the only political party and ruling party that the people absolutely trust. Korea has never had a party of 100 years history. So we don't know what it feels like to have that. The party is now leading China. The spread of Covid-19 is exacerbating the image of China. Now we need to be aware of ourselves as well as our opponents.

China faces two challenges

The Conservative Party and the Labor Party of the United Kingdom, The Republican Party and the Democratic Party of the United States, and The Social Democratic Party of Germany(Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands) are political parties with history and tradition. Next year, a party with a history of 100 years will also appear in a country that advocates socialism and communism. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which was called the original socialist state, disappeared from history in about 70 years. The Chinese Communist Party survived with a tough vitality, despite its ups and downs. Today they are pioneering the road with great strength, but the beginning was weak and shabby. Only 50 people gathered to avoid soldiers and police at the foreign concession in Shanghai, and decided on the birth of The Chinese Communist Party. Now the party has more than 90 million members. It has become a huge political party, unprecedented worldwide.

China now faces two challenges. First, it is a strategic competition between the United States and China over global hegemony. The two countries are competing with a wide range of conflicts. It starts with commodity trade, goes through technical competition, and leads to global hegemony competition. The United States took the offensive first, but China will not back down easily. Second, it is the Covid-19 virus that spread around the world. Infectious diseases are universal problems of mankind that transcend tribe, race, religion, and state. Humanity must respond jointly through international cooperation. But the joint response is not being made because of the conflict between the United States and China, so each country is preventing infectious diseases. The future of China depends on how they respond to these two problems. The Chinese Communist Party is in the middle of the governance.

The Chinese Communist Party recognizes people as main agents of revolution

In the mid-19th century, China formed a relationship with the world, starting with the Opium War. China was destroyed by the West with its new weapons, and fell after being defeated by Japan. A new republic has begun. Intellectuals and bureaucrats with new ideas have developed various reform movements to revive China's glory. But there was no result. In this process, the ignorant people were the object of enlightenment. Through various social movements such as the May 4th Movement, the idea that the people could become the main agent of the revolution spread. The reformers sought to capture the revolutionary enthusiasm of the people. A new political experiment centered on the Kuomintang Chinese Nationalist Party and the Chinese Communist Party has begun.

The Kuomintang Chinese Nationalist Party was led by people with social status. On the other hand, the Chinese Communist Party was in a very poor situation. The Kuomintang Chinese Nationalist Party was led by people with social status. On the other hand, the Chinese Communist Party was in a very poor situation. There was also a strangeness about the new ideology and ideas of socialism and communism. The early communists were almost all intellectuals. Unlike the Kuomintang Chinese Nationalist Party, which conformed to the existing order, they noted farmers and workers. They were interested in those who were alienated from the existing order and showed the energy of revolution in the May 4 movement. Enlightening and organizing them, the Chinese Communist Party created the People's Republic of China in 1949, 28 years after its establishment. So the Chinese Communist Party is evaluated as saving China, where socialism was falling.

The Chinese Communist Party is flexible in its situation and phase

China has a ‘party state system’ in which political party govern and manage the state. China's political party created an army and a nation. A political party was not established after the formation of a state. Therefore, in China, political party is prioritised over the state. This tradition continues to the present, waiting for the birth of a party with a history of 100 years. China's political party had a very superior position to manage and oversee both the state, society and corporations. Therefore, the state and society must follow the party's decision. Decisions of the state and society can also be powered by political party decisions. In the old days and now, the Chinese Communist Party is the center of political life and people's life in China. The Chinese Communist Party is like a bible, so their interpretation is like a norm.

Therefore, in order to understand the possibility and prospect of China's change, we should always pay attention to the movement of the Chinese Communist Party. This is because the Chinese Communist Party always exists at the center of change and reform. Since the establishment of New China, the renovation of socialism, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and China, the Reform and Open policy, etc. were led by the Chinese Communist Party or within the scope of their permission. In this process, we need to look carefully at the Chinese Communist Party's perception of reality, response and amazing adaptability. If we try to build a new cooperative model in the relationship between Korea and China, it means that we should carefully review the flexibility of the Chinese Communist Party and establish a strategy. The flexibility of the Chinese Communist Party is more resilient than we can imagine. They accept capitalists as party members.

The world is watching the Chinese Communist Party carefully

The excessive worship of Mao Zedong led to the loss and destruction of history through the Chinese Cultural Revolution. It has brought about the rigidity and doctrinalization of the Chinese Communist Party. However, the Chinese Communist Party said, “Mao's merit is 70, and the demerit is 30.” They concluded the issue of history, saying that “Mao's demerit should be criticized but merit should be inherited.” They kept flexibility and were wary of Mao's leadership being undermined. As a result, Mao's evaluation of leadership in China became a sacred and inviolable area. The emperor is gone, but the supreme leader with the emperor's status is reigning again.

Even if the Chinese Communist Party has great flexibility, it is not easy to recognize merit and merit. If they recognize, they have to take responsibility. But Mao lived without any responsibility. And he is still considered the elder of the Communist revolution, which is respected and admired by the Chinese. The tendency to deify the authority of the top leader continues to Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping. But China has begun to change since 2001.

The reform and opening policy was a revolutionary step that accelerated China's wealth. However, China continued to claim that it needed a revolution after the construction of the new China, and caused the Chinese Cultural Revolution. As a result, China has become so desolate that it needs reform and opening again. Therefore, the Chinese Communist Party had no choice but to find a new way to survive. Deng Xiaoping reached out to the capitalist world. This is why it is said that capitalism saved the dying socialism. The DNA of the merchant, which was shrunk by ideology, was expressed through The reform and opening policy. The merchant's temperament has enriched China. As China became rich and strong, the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party's rule grew. The atmosphere of absolute trust in the party has penetrated the people's hearts like faith. But the world, including the United States, began to watch out for China's rise.

Party-state system in difficult situation under internationalization trend

China has accumulated wealth through the reform and opening policy. This has led to rapid diversification of society. China was unable to avoid the advent of a pluralistic society. China watched the fall of the Soviet Communist Party and the democratization process of Eastern Europe. They were convinced that they could drive future developments by using a powerful party-state system as a driving force.

The conflict between the U.S. and China has strengthened this regressive thinking. But unlike the party's expectations, China has already stepped deep into the international community. It is difficult to give up or abandon the wealth and profits from it. This is why China insists on multilateralism and international cooperation as the conflict between the US and China continues. China's entanglement in many international relations in the process of reform and opening is like Taiwan's inability to escape from China.

China's future is decided by the party. It has been, and will be. China preferred bilateral relations in the early days of New China. It is hard to find such a diplomatic form now. This is because China is connected to the world in many sectors. Bilateral relations such as Korea-China relations are also considered within the framework of multilateral relations.

When the relationship between the U.S. and China was friendly(whether it was bilateral or multilateral), China's autonomous space and role were relatively large. But it is not easy for China to get out of international multilateral relations. The benefits of being a nation are smaller than they can be obtained through multilateral relationships. China will be burdened by maintaining multilateral relations and international cooperation, which are strengthened in responsibility. The United States can come back anytime, but China is hard to do. They have not enough power to stop America's veto.

The Chinese Communist Party and New Changes in the Relationship between Korea and China

There is a saying that a good neighbor is better than a brother far off. China, which has lived as a neighbor for thousands of years, is a very important country for us. We read the Three Kingdoms, and read the poems of Yi Baek and Dubo, so we say, "I know China well." But, in fact, we don't really know how modern China was established and what path the Chinese Communist Party will choose in the future. China does not know Korea either. They praise the Korean Wave, but they do not know the historical context of why Korea emphasizes relations with the United States. That's why China's statism and nationalism, which raised questions about BTS's comments, are unfamiliar to us. China and Korea have a very close relationship historically and culturally. To maintain this relationship, a flexible response from the Chinese Communist Party is required. We also need to make efforts to learn deeply about modern China. If mutual trust and friendly image are hurt, we can no longer be good neighbors.