The most important political event in China is the National Congress of the Communist Party of China. It is different from the conventions of political parties in other countries. For example, the national conventions of political parties in Korea are nothing more than an event to build their own party’s hierarchy of power. However, at the National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the power structure of the entire country is determined. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (Squadron), which ended on October 22, is one such example. Even in liberal democracies, political parties claim that ‘we are right’. But that ‘right’ is only approved through elections. Citizens elect a president or ruling party by voting and delegate to them government for a certain period of time. On the other hand, in China, the Communist Party is assumed to be ‘right’ regardless of the election. Literally, a priori ‘right’. The ideological basis of the Communist Party of China is Marxism and Leninism. In Marxism-Leninism, the Communist Party is set up as a kind of ‘sage’ group that knows ‘how the world works’. They also know much better than the parties about ‘what are the people’s real interests’. So, the Communist Party can lead the country forever without having to go through a vote or anything like that. The Communist Party reigns over the ‘Chinese State’, and the Communist Party’s immediate (party constitution) takes precedence over the Chinese Constitution. China’s constitution stipulates ‘leading the Communist Party’. This is why the Communist Party Squadron is the most important political event at the level of the “Chinese State”. The internal ranks and routes determined by the Communist Party at the squadron held in the fall every five years are ratified by the legislature (National People’s Congress) after 4-5 months (March of the following year). Accordingly, the executive branch (the State Council), which is a power organization at the level of the ‘Chinese state’, is formed. The supreme powers elected (?) from the squadron are assigned to the state apparatus according to their rank. Of China’s population, which exceeds 1.4 billion, members of the Communist Party account for 6-7%, or about 90 million. Among them, about 2,300 “representatives” gather at the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square in Beijing to elect the Communist Party leadership. Delegates first elect the Central Committee of the Communist Party (composed of 200 central members and 170 candidate members). The members of the Central Committee thus constituted select 25 members of the Central Politburo (24 in the 20th Squadron). The Politburo members again select seven standing members. This standing committee member is an elite among the elite. The leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the leader of the Standing Committee, which is the general secretary. This ‘draw and pick’ process carried out in the squadron follows a carefully coordinated scenario in advance. According to this scenario, the squadron is just a kind of play that takes place on a stage decorated in red. Rather, what is important is whether the scenario is ‘collective creation’ or ‘independent writing’. Although the Chinese Communist Party appears to be in perfect harmony, inside it is a complex entanglement of factions that sometimes fight and sometimes compromise. Before Xi Jinping came to power, the scenario of the formation of the Politburo and the Standing Committee was drawn up as a result of the struggles and compromises of factions, that is, the collective creation. This is the so-called collective leadership system. However, the 20th Squadron has a high possibility of ‘independent writing’. The author is, of course, Xi Jinping. On October 22, the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. ⓒYonhap News ■ General Secretary, Military Committee President, State President Xi Jinping Xi Jinping was appointed as General Secretary of the Communist Party and President of the Central Military Commission (Military Committee) through the 20th Squadron. He will be elected president of the country at the National People’s Congress (NPC) next March. General Secretary of the Communist Party, President of the State, and President of the Military Commission are the highest positions in China. While the general secretary is in charge of the party, the president of the country represents the ‘Chinese nation’. So, outwardly, the president is elected from the National People’s Congress, which “is” to reflect the will of the people other than the members of the Communist Party. The Chairman of the Military Committee, which commands the 2 million People’s Liberation Army, is a party position determined by the Communist Party. The People’s Liberation Army is set up as an ‘army of the Chinese Communist Party’ before it is an army of the ‘state of China’. If we take the case of South Korea, it means that the power of the people or the representative of the Democratic Party of Korea has command of the armed forces. In fact, the real power of Chinese politics is the chairman of the Military Committee. Deng Xiaoping, the second supreme ruler (the first was Mao Zedong), did not serve as general secretary or president. However, he pushed reform and opening up while maintaining the position of chairman of the Military Commission. Even after Deng allowed his third generation, Jiang Zemin, to be the chairman of the Military Committee, Deng Xiaoping planted ‘his people’ in key positions in the Military Committee and kept them in check. Jiang Zemin handed over the positions of general secretary and state president to the fourth generation, Hu Jintao, in 2002, but did not resign as chairman of the military committee until 2004. Because, as Mao Zedong said, “power comes from the barrel”. The 5th generation, Xi Jinping, inherited the entirety of Hu Jintao from Hu Jintao in 2012. Since then, he has further strengthened the ‘power from the gun barrel’. The People’s Armed Police Unit (Armed Police), an armed group that forms a parallel with the People’s Liberation Army, was made to be under the sole command of the Military Commission from 2018. The armed police are a paramilitary organization separate from the ‘public security’ in charge of security. Armed police officers equipped with the latest weapons, excluding missiles, number about 1.5 million. The armed police were once called the privates of a faction within the Communist Party (Shanghai Bang). In March 2012, in the capital Beijing, the People’s Liberation Army under the command of then General Secretary Hu Jintao engaged in a gunfight with the armed police of Zhou Yongkang, secretary of the Central Political and Legal Committee. ■ ‘Two Session’ is just a puppet of the Communist Party The ‘Two Session’, which will be held in March next year, is a place to formalize the communist party’s power hierarchy determined in the previous generation at the Chinese national level. The two meetings refer to the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPC). The National People’s Congress, representing all the people, including members of the Communist Party, elects the president of the country and constitutes the State Council (the executive branch). The Political Cooperative Association is a kind of national advisory body in which the Communist Party and several other factions (actually, satellite parties and organizations under the leadership of the Communist Party) negotiate (?) political issues. The National People’s Congress is supposed to collect opinions from the National People’s Congress. Seen in this way, the two meetings can be said to be a rite of ‘sublimating’ the decision of one party (communist party) into a decision at the national level with the support of ‘the whole people’. Only then can China be equipped with the status of a ‘state’ rather than a ‘group where the whole is swayed by the will of a few’. However, it is not difficult to see that Yang Hui (and furthermore, the Chinese state) is nothing more than a puppet of the Communist Party, according to the customs observed in China. The second rank in the standing committee appointed by the Communist Party will be the prime minister of the State Council, the third will be the chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, and the fourth will serve as the president of the People’s Republic of Korea. 5th place is the first secretary of the Communist Party’s Central Secretariat (which handles the affairs of the Central Politburo and Standing Committee), and 6th and 7th places are usually appointed as the Deputy Prime Minister of the State Council or secretary of the Central Discipline Inspection Committee (Medium Committee). The Intermediate Administrative Committee is an agency that inspects corruption and corruption among members of the Communist Party. If you seize this position, you can inflict a heavy blow to the opposing faction in the struggle for power within the party. Xi Jinping has done just that.
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