China has played the important role for the security in the Korean peninsula since the end of the Cold War. During the last ten years, Kim Dae-Jung and Roh Moo-Hyun governments in Korea have loosened the Korea-USA alliance and Korea-USA-Japan alliance...
China has played the important role for the security in the Korean peninsula since the end of the Cold War. During the last ten years, Kim Dae-Jung and Roh Moo-Hyun governments in Korea have loosened the Korea-USA alliance and Korea-USA-Japan alliance while they have made closer relationship with China and North Korea. Before and with the inauguration of the new government on February 25, 2008, President Lee Myung-Bak has emphasized the rebuilding of close alliance between Korea and USA and Korea-USA-Japan alliance. This makes China worry about a new tension in Sino-Korean relations and international relations in Northeast Asia.
In this context, this paper focuses on the issues about Hu Jintao’s second government and its new leadership, China’s democratization issue related to Korean democratization, China’s unification with Taiwan and its perspective on unification of the Korean peninsula, China’s economic relationship with Korea in the future, China’s treatment with North Korea its role in the Korean peninsula, and China’s Northeast Project on the Koguryo history of Koreas. Finally, the paper concerns on what kind of foreign policy China will take according to its economic development and domestic social stability.