Speaking
about his new documentary 'The coming war on China', the famous
filmmaker, John Pilger, gives an explanation on why the US insist to
provoke China and Russia, increasing very dangerously the possibility
of a nuclear conflict, which will bring us to the edge of the abyss.
Why
is that, the news talks about the airstrips that China is building in
the South China Sea, but anything to do with the US build-up, this
so-called pivot to Asia, which most of the American public has never
heard of, and yet represents the biggest build up of air and naval
forces in the world since WWII, it wasn't an issue? It's not
discussed? It's downplayed, and that includes the so-called
'respectable media', if you like.
The
difference with the old Cold War is that there were red lines then.
There were red lines that you only crossed at your extreme parallel
and both sides knew where they were. These days there are no red
lines. You have American-led NATO forces on the Western borders of
Russia. That would have been unheard of during the old Cold War. You
have a great armada of US navy ships heading for China. You have the
greatest seagoing military exercise in recent memory, operation
'Talisman Saber', which rehearsed the blockade of China across the
Straits of Malacca. That happened only last year. We don't know about
this.
China
has become the second biggest economic power in the world. It may
well be the biggest economic power now. There's never been a rise
like it. It's happened in a very very short time, and the US knows
that its dominance across, for instance, trade deals, goodbye to all
those US dominated trade arrangements and banking arrangements. The
Chinese have set up a parallel banking system that challenges the
whole Bretton Woods architecture of banking. China has become the
developer, the builder, not only the workshop, leaving the US with
one well-defined power that of its military.
China,
until recently, according to the literature, kept its nuclear weapons
on low alert. That means they separated the missiles and the
warheads. They are now on high alert. Why? One strategist said that
'we're not your enemy', but if you want us to be your enemy, we have
to prepare. That is certainly the reluctant view in the Chinese
ruling circles.
The
US should stop threatening the world and stop threatening nuclear
powers. The US still operates a kind of 19th century foreign policy.
It's a gunboat foreign policy. It's so out of date, but no one wants
it because everybody knows where it could lead.
Africa
is very interesting, where the Chinese have gone and instead of the
old Western routine of saying 'countries can only develop on our
terms', on World Bank terms, IMF, the Chinese have gone in and said
'let's have your raw materials and we'll build roads and bridges and
ports for you.'
The
US response has been entirely military. So, you have right through
Africa, AFRICOM, which is the newest US military command, with
headquarters now in Addis Ababa, has a military presence in almost
all the major countries in Africa, in which military hardware is
given to often unstable governments. That's a colonial, a 19th
century imperial way of dealing. The Chinese on the other hand are
expanding in business terms, not in military terms.
Full
interview:
On
the one hand, Russia and China,
together with the rest of the BRICS, are trying to get rid of the
dollar and form their own currency system to gain complete
independence, on the other, the neocon banking-corporate puppets in
the US are in panic and seek desperately a pretext to come to war
with Russia and put an end to this threat for their plans. This
explains their agony to drag Russia into a warm conflict.
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