South Korean National Association of Professors Suggest Rejecting the CCP to Avoid Danger

Geopolitically, South Korea and the Korean peninsula have always been the main obstacle for the Chinese Communist Party to assert hegemony over Asia. Therefore, the CCP has been developing a pro-China strategy in South Korea. Scholars and professors from the National Association of Professors expressed concerns. A discussion was held to analyze the status and harms of the pro-China policy from multiple perspectives. Li Zhirong, Professor of Chinese Studies at Keimyung University, said: "If South Korea becomes a pro-China country, it will give the Korean government excuses to gain interests out of it. However, standing with the Chinese Communist Party is equivalent to giving a fatal blow to the U.S.- led liberal international system." Li Zhirong said: "In order to make South Korea pro-China, the CCP conducts in-depth infiltration tactics from holistic perspectives including political, economic, social, and cultural." Professor Li said that from a geopolitical perspective, South Korea and the Korean Peninsula are the first targets of the CCP in expanding Asian hegemony. The free and democratic South Korea and the Korea-US alliance are also considered as the main obstacle by the CCP to expand its hegemony. Therefore, a pro-China strategy was launched for South Korea. The participants discussed that the Korean government should stay away from the CCP during this turning point in the world and not fall into the so-called fantasy of "U.S. in decline and China in prosperity." According to Cao Chenghuan, a Ph.D. in political science and professor of Politics at Kyonggi University: "China’s internal rule, along with the external expansion policy, have exhausted the CCP, and excessive bluffs have actually caused the CCP and its People's Liberation Army to be rapidly depleted. In fact, it has been split into several forces internally, which control different parts of the economy." Cui Yuanmu, professor of law school at Ewha Womans University, said: "At present, with the condemnation of the CCP virus, the world starts evaluating the losses and rejecting the CCP, and many international companies are withdrawing from China." Scholars believe that the CCP is struggling during the crisis due to its one-party totalitarian political system. At the same time, its expansionary totalitarianism is also facing resistance and challenges from the democratic movements in Hong Kong and Taiwan. The pro-social justice National Association of Professors is a conservative citizen group composed of 6,300 professors from 377 universities in South Korea.