Are you a racist if you prefer to live in a mono-ethnic society?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

It's not inherently racist. However, it unavoidably leads to rampant xenophobia, and xenophobia oftentimes turns into racism.

I wouldn't necessarily say 'unavoidably', but in the case of for example a lot of the anti-immigrant parties in contemporary Europe this sort of thing is definitely the case. It's very easy for an ethnic-based national identity to become dangerously vituperative if perceived to be threatened.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

1. In 2007, it was estimated that over a million people with foreign citizenship were living in South Korea and the number has contiued to increase. It is not '99,98% Korean'. Also, by 2009 11% of marriages in South Korea were between a South Korean and a foreigner. About 25% of South Koreans have adopted Christianity, I doubt they consider Jesus to be Korean, so they put a different-raced deity at the top of their religious life.

1. Japan is a far better illustration of politicus's point. There are plenty of foreigners living there but ethnic basis for citizenship approaches (though doesn't quite reach) 100%.  And Christianity's position in Japan is just weird--it's overwhelmingly considered an upper-class religion, for example.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

3. What is politcus's weird obsession with the CCP?

TBF, they are criminals.

By whose authority?

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I was about to say Japan. The resistance to foreigners in Japan seems unusually strong even for an East Asian country. I don't know how much of that has to do with them being historically the most successful country in the region.

In modern times it goes back to sonnō jōi ('Revere the Emperor! Expel the barbarians!'), which was the impetus for industrializing so as to avoid European spheres of influence. They saw what happened to the Empire of Great Qing, and they were afraid.

It has considerably earlier antecedents in the history of Japanese isolationism, of course.