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THE RESILIENCE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA

PhD in International Relations, integrated researcher at Instituto do Oriente (ISCSP/University of Lisbon, Portugal), and author of the following books on China's geopolitics: China: Cooperação e Conflito na Questão de Taiwan (2010), A Hora do Dragão – Política Externa da China (2012), China na Grande Guerra – A Conquista da Nova Identidade Internacional (2014) e China`s Techno-Nationalism in the Global Era – Strategic Implications for Europe (2016). He has published several articles in national and foreign journals on Asia-Pacific geopolitics.

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Upon reaching 100 years of activity, the Communist Party of China (CPC) highlights and projects a unique model of political and social development. Taking as methodological inspiration the proposal of Samuel P. Huntington for the study of the political phenomenon, regarding the adaptability of the seat of power, this work focus on some of the variables that justify the perpetuity of the CPC. Culture and ideology drive an unparalleled evolutionary process in conventional systemic frameworks, legitimized by an outfit with intrinsic Chinese characteristics. China’s apparent exceptionalism, based on a strong nationalist vision, is conveyed through a transformational “new era.” Western academic currents denote difficulty in framing this phenomenon with global implications.

Ao perfazer 100 anos de actividade, o Partido Comunista da China (PCC) evidencia e projeta um modelo singular de desenvolvimento político e social. Tomando por inspiração metodológica a proposta de Samuel P. Huntington para o estudo do fenómeno político, designadamente quanto à adaptabilidade da sede do poder, procuraremos focar algumas das variáveis que justificarão a perenidade do PCC. A cultura e a ideologia dinamizam um processo evolutivo sem paralelo nos quadros sistémicos convencionais, legitimado por um figurino com intrínsecas características chinesas. O aparente excecionalismo chinês, baseado numa forte visão nacionalista, é veiculado através de uma “nova era” transformacional. As correntes académicas ocidentais denotam dificuldade em enquadrarem este fenómeno com implicações globais.

Palavras-chave

centenaryChinese dreamCommunist Party of ChinanationalismXi Jinping

centenárionacionalismoPartido Comunista da Chinasonho chinêsXi Jinping

Como citar este artigo

Cunha, Luís (2022). The Resilience of the Communist Party of China. In Janus.net, e-journal of international relations. Vol13, Nº. 1, May-October 2022. Consulted [online] on the date of the last visit, https://doi.org/10.26619/1647-7251.13.1.3

Article received on 10 May, 2021 and accepted for publication on 9 September, 2021