As President Xi Jinping secured an unprecedented third term as Chinese Communist Party (CCP) chief yesterday The Coming War on China draws ever closer, predicts award-winning journalist John Pilger.
In Pilger’s thought-provoking documentary, The Coming War on China, he notes the United States, backed by Western mainstream media (MSM), has been “beating the drums of war and the world has been primed to treat China as a new enemy.”
But why does the US regard China as an enemy? According to the documentary, financial jealousy. The Chinese do capitalism higher than the West. China is thrashing the US at their very own sport as a end result of they don’t let the enterprise sector run the country the way in which enterprise runs the West.
Eric Li, entrepreneur and social scientist, said…
“One fable I suppose really needs to be dispelled is that one method or the other China’s aiming to replace America and gonna run the world. First of all, the Chinese aren’t that silly. The West, with its Christian roots, are about converting different folks to their beliefs. The Chinese usually are not about that. I’m not degrading the Western culture. I’m simply pointing out the inherent nature, the DNA’s of two different cultures. The Chinese 2000 years ago constructed the Great Wall to keep the barbarians out, not to invade them.”
John Pilger
Pilger, an Australian journalist, documentary maker, and BAFTA winner, points out that since China opened as a lot as the West in 1979 and embraced some elements of capitalism it has lifted greater than 300 million people out of poverty.
Shanghai pre-Covid-19 was a affluent worldwide city still run by the Communists, a minimum of in title. The reality, Pilger says, China has matched America at its personal great sport of capitalism and that is unforgivable.
“America was now threatened by the emergence of an enormous picture of itself,” Pilger mentioned.
Eric Li adds…
“In China, there are lots of problems. But at the moment, the Chinese, the party-state, has confirmed a rare capacity to alter. In America, you can change political parties but you can’t change the insurance policies.
“In China, you can not change the get together but you’ll find a way to change insurance policies. For over 70 years, China has been run by one single party yet the political modifications that have taken place in China these previous 70 years have been wider and broader and higher than probably another major nation in fashionable memory.
“So, in that time, China ceased to be communist. China is a market economy. It’s a vibrant market financial system however it’s not a capitalist nation. Here’s why.
“There’s no method a group of billionaires could management the get together bureau as billionaires control American policymaking. So in China, you could have a vibrant market financial system but capital doesn’t rise above political authority. Capital doesn’t have enshrined rights. In America, capital, the curiosity of capital and capital itself has risen above the American nation.
“The political authority can’t examine the ability of capital. That’s why America is a capitalist country however China’s not. China’s objectives are modest compared with their weight. They’re not attempting to run the world. They’re not even making an attempt to run the Asian-Pacific. I assume they wish to hold America from dominating the Asian-Pacific.
“So they’ve what they imagine is their rightful place in the Asian-Pacific, due to all civilizations and all of the history on their facet, so their aims are actually modest compared with their capacity.”
Hundreds of US navy bases encompass China within the South China Sea.
The documentary highlights US’ ambition to impress a war with China. They invest trillions of dollars into the nation’s military programme and they should justify it, so they need an enemy. That enemy is now China, and the excuse they make is Taiwan.
The US obsesses over China invading the province with out evidence. And yet, the One-China coverage of Taiwan as a province and part of the Chinese mainland was acknowledged by the United Nations General Assembly Resolution in 1971. Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, 181 countries have established diplomatic relations with China on the One-China policy. The US is a kind of nations.
Pilger believes there was a century-long worry, suspicion, and unfounded hatred of China by the US. US businessmen had their concessions in Shanghai within the late nineteenth century and early 20th century the place they became very rich largely on the again of drugs, particularly, opium. But they had been pushed out of China by the Communists in 1949 and the US has by no means forgiven them.
Yet Chairman Mao Zedong reached out to the US five years before he drove Westerners out of China in 1949. And he continued to succeed in out for years after.
Mao sent this secret message to Washington. He said…
“China should industrialize. This can solely be accomplished by free enterprise. Chinese and American interests match collectively economically and politically.
“ Authoritative need not worry that we’ll not be cooperative. We cannot danger crossing America. We can’t danger any conflict.”
Mao obtained no reply.
Pilger stories Mao was seeking to be a pal of the US from the beginning.
Mao says, I will go meet Franklin Roosevelt in the White House. Mao reaches out in 1950 to Harry Truman. The US diplomats who carried these messages have been condemned as Communists and traitors.
According to the documentary, the catalyst for the latest alarm was China reclaiming territory in the South China Sea to build airstrips on disputed islands that had been condemned by a global tribunal.
It grew to become a flashpoint between the US and China. But what isn’t highlighted in MSM is the quantity of US military bases armed with warships, missiles, and bombers, in locations such as the Marshall Islands, surrounding China in the South China Sea, the Pacific Ocean, Australia, and beyond.
James Bradley, the author of the China Mirage, said…
“If you would look out of the tallest constructing in Beijing and appeared out into the South China Sea you would see warships.
“The US is at struggle with China on the ground and within the air. The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, former President Barack Obama, committed to trillions of dollars to our nuclear arsenal. He dedicated trillions of future dollars to warfare in area and we want an enemy for all this cash and China’s the perfect enemy.”
Pilger notes that the Japanese island of Okinawa is occupied by 32 military installations. From there, the US attacked Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
Okinawa is the front line of a beckoning war with China. The US has a quantity of army bases on the island. During the Cold War, the US secretly put in nuclear weapons at this launch pad in Okinawa. Most of them had been geared toward China.
Likewise, Jeju Island is a world heritage site. The government of South Korea declared it an island of world peace. But on this island of peace lies some of the provocative army bases in the world has been constructed less than 400 miles from Shanghai. Like Okinawa and the Marshall Islands, this is America’s frontline in its so-called “Pivot to Asia.”
Pilger concludes…
“The US is an empire that by no means speaks its title. It has four,000 army bases, with 1,000 unfold throughout each continent. From these bases, the US operates a secret army in 147 international locations.
“By talking out, they deliver a warning to all of us. Can we really afford to be silent?”