This study analyzed how President Syngman Rhee responded to Chinese military intervention during the Korean War and his perspective on Chinese troops and China. Rhee underestimated the impact of the Chinese civil war on the Korean Peninsula, and did not pay much attention to the possibility of Chinese military intervention even after the outbreak of the Korean War. He saw the Chinese military’s intervention in the Korean War as determined and instigated by the Soviet Union, and underestimated the Chinese troop’s military capabilities. Rhee regarded all of the Asian communists, including China and North Korea, as Soviet puppets. He did not acknowledge their spontaneity and subjectivity at all. Therefore, the Chinese troops were treated as extremely anonymous entity. China’s military, economic, and political capabilities were all underestimated. Based on the rollback strategy, Syngman Rhee argued that the communist regime should be overthrown in China as well as in North Korea. Rhee did not properly recognize China even as enemies because he thoroughly denied the China’s independence and spontaneity from Soviet Union based on the extreme Cold War perspective. This had a negative effect not only on active peace that resolves hostile conflicts and peacemaking, but also on the passive level of peace that prevents enemy aggression and protects security.