중국의 부상 이후 한․일 양국의 중국 인식에 관한 고찰－정상회담을 통한 정상들의 중국 인식을 중심으로－

Abstract

China’s outpacing has significantly influenced on both countries of Korea and China, being the most contiguous to each other. Being deprived China of economic power, Japan brought up China threat theory with the anti-China stance from 1990 and the starting point in 2010, and China showed a strong aversion of it. Therefore, the perceptions of China have get worse in Japan. Meanwhile, after the diplomatic relations between Korea and China in 1992, Korea has come in rapid and sharp outpacing with China. Although there was the review of their continuous summit conferences, which was successful in economy and environment, they have not yet insured the substantiality of diplomacy and national security. Also, even though China’s outpacing was recognized as ‘opportunity’ of economy and ‘treat’ of national security in the aspect of economy, the international relations surrounding China was explained in the recent academic world, which the advent of rich and powerful China simultaneously has had the facts of opportunity and treat, instead of conflict and cooperation, so they have expected that China would repeat ups and downs depending on issues. Therefore, in this study, it continues to research on the leaders of Korea and Japan’s perceptions of China, analyzing the president of Korea and the prime minister of Japan’s introductory remarks in the summit conference, as not the facts of opportunity or treat, and it demonstratively develops how the perceptions of China has changed. Especially, because the leaders of both countries, Korea and Japan, have the powerful authority of policy decisions and the crucial influence on policy implementation, catching the leaders’ perceptions of China will be beneficial to anticipate the variables in Northeast Asia, not only in Korea, China, and Japan.