19th Plenum of the Communist Party of China and the possibility of changes within the area 

Chung Jae-hung 

(jameschung@sejong.org)

Research Fellow,

the Sejong Institute 

​English Abstract 

Through the third 100-year history resolution of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping established himself as the third greatest leader after Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. As a result, the third historical resolution positively evaluated the Communist Party's 100-year struggle, defined the history of the Communist Party of China as the steps of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping (including Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao), and Xi Jinping. The resolution clearly sets a blueprint for a new strategic goal of building a socialist power with Chinese characteristics after Xi's inauguration. At the same time, the resolution emphasized that the Communist Party of China played a central role in the construction of socialist revolution and state construction, reform and opening-up, and socialist modernization. As Xi Jinping's one-man system strengthened through the resolution, China will change its role from a participant to a leader in order to change the existing global governance centered on the U.S. in 100 years of upheaval in 100 years. In particular, with the emergence of a new U.S.-China strategic competition, the U.S.-China relationship is expected to break away from its passive stance in the past and shift to a horizontal relationship.