{"id":83888,"date":"2016-12-05T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=83888"},"modified":"2017-01-05T19:09:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T19:09:25","slug":"the-coming-war-on-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/12\/the-coming-war-on-china\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coming War on China"},"content":{"rendered":"

A major US military build-up \u2013 including nuclear weapons \u2013 is under way in Asia and the Pacific with the purpose of confronting China. John Pilger raises the alarm on an under-reported and dangerous\u00a0provocation.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4 Dec 2016 – <\/em>When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open. At a quarter past eight on the morning of 6 August, 1945, she and her silhouette were burned into the granite. I stared at the shadow for an hour or more, unforgettably. When I returned many years later, it was gone: taken away, \u201cdisappeared\u201d, a political embarrassment.<\/p>\n

I have spent two years making a documentary film, The Coming War on China,<\/em> in which the evidence and witnesses warn that nuclear war is no longer a shadow, but a contingency.\u00a0 The greatest build-up of American-led military forces since the Second World War is well under way. They are in the northern hemisphere, on the western borders of Russia, and in Asia and the Pacific, confronting China.<\/p>\n

The great danger this beckons is not news, or it is buried and distorted: a drumbeat of mainstream fake news that echoes the psychopathic fear embedded in public consciousness during much of the 20th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n

Like the renewal of post-Soviet Russia, the rise of China as an economic power is declared an \u201cexistential threat\u201d to the divine right of the United States to rule and dominate human affairs.<\/p>\n

To counter this, in 2011 President Obama announced a \u201cpivot to Asia\u201d, which meant that almost two-thirds of US naval forces would be transferred to Asia and the Pacific by 2020.<\/p>\n

Today, more than 400 American military bases encircle China with missiles, bombers, warships and, above all, nuclear weapons. From Australia north through the Pacific to Japan, Korea and across Eurasia to Afghanistan and India, the bases form, says one US strategist, \u201cthe perfect noose\u201d.<\/p>\n

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A study by the RAND Corporation \u2013 which, since Vietnam, has planned America\u2019s wars \u2013 is entitled, War with China: Thinking Through the Unthinkable<\/em>.\u00a0 Commissioned by the US Army, the authors evoke the cold war when RAND made notorious the catch cry of its chief strategist, Herman Kahn \u2014 \u201cthinking the unthinkable\u201d. Kahn\u2019s book, On Thermonuclear War, <\/em>elaborated a plan for a \u201cwinnable\u201d nuclear war against the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

Today, his apocalyptic view is shared by those holding real power in the United States: the militarists and neo-conservatives in the executive, the Pentagon, the intelligence and \u201cnational security\u201d establishment and Congress. The current Secretary of Defense, Ashley Carter, a verbose provocateur, says US policy is to confront those \u201cwho see America\u2019s dominance and want to take that away from us\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Today, more than 400 American military bases encircle China with missiles, bombers, warships and nuclear weapons.
Charles Gatward: The Coming War on China, Darmouth Films<\/p><\/div>\n

‘Punish’ China<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Washington, I met Amitai Etzioni, distinguished professor of international affairs at George Washington University. The US, he writes, \u2018is preparing for a war with China, a momentous decision that so far has failed to receive a thorough review from elected officials, namely the White House and\u00a0Congress.\u2019<\/p>\n

This war would begin with a \u2018blinding attack against Chinese anti-access facilities, including land and sea-based missile launchers\u2026 satellite and anti-satellite weapons\u2019. The incalculable risk is that \u2018deep inland strikes could be mistakenly perceived by the Chinese as pre-emptive attempts to take out its nuclear weapons, thus cornering them into \u201ca terrible use-it-or-lose-it dilemma\u201d [that would] lead to nuclear\u00a0war.\u2019<\/p>\n

In 2015, the Pentagon released its Law of War Manual<\/em>. \u2018The United States,\u2019 it says, \u2018has not accepted a treaty rule that prohibits the use of nuclear weapons per se, and thus nuclear weapons are lawful weapons for the United\u00a0States.\u2019<\/p>\n

In China, a strategist told me, \u2018We are not your enemy, but if you [in the West] decide we are, we must prepare without delay.\u2019 China\u2019s military and arsenal are small compared to America\u2019s. However, \u2018for the first time,\u2019 wrote Gregory Kulacki of the Union of Concerned Scientists, \u2018China is discussing putting its nuclear missiles on high alert so that they can be launched quickly on warning of an attack\u2026 This would be a significant and dangerous change in Chinese policy\u2026 Indeed, the nuclear weapon policies of the United States are the most prominent external factor influencing Chinese advocates for raising the alert level of China\u2019s nuclear\u00a0forces.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘I don’t want it to be a fair fight. It it’s a knife fight, I want to bring a gun’ <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor Ted Postol was scientific adviser to the head of US naval operations. An authority on nuclear weapons, he told me, \u2018Everybody here wants to look like they\u2019re tough. See, I got to be tough\u2026 I\u2019m not afraid of doing anything military, I\u2019m not afraid of threatening; I\u2019m a hairy-chested gorilla. And we have gotten into a state, the United States has gotten into a situation where there\u2019s a lot of sabre-rattling, and it\u2019s really being orchestrated from the\u00a0top.\u2019<\/p>\n

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I said, \u2018This seems incredibly\u00a0dangerous.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018That\u2019s an\u00a0understatement.\u2019<\/p>\n

Andrew Krepinevich is a former Pentagon war planner and the influential author of war games against China. He wants to \u2018punish\u2019 China for extending its defences to the South China Sea. He advocates seeding the ocean with sea mines, sending in US special forces and enforcing a naval blockade. He told me, \u2018Our first president, George Washington, said if you want peace, prepare for\u00a0war.\u2019<\/p>\n

In 2015, in high secrecy, the US staged its biggest single military exercise since the Cold War. This was Talisman Sabre; an armada of ships and long-range bombers rehearsed an \u2018Air-Sea Battle Concept for China\u2019 \u2013 ASB \u2013 blocking sea lanes in the Straits of Malacca and cutting off China\u2019s access to oil, gas and other raw materials from the Middle East and\u00a0Africa.<\/p>\n

It is such a provocation, and the fear of a US Navy blockade, that has seen China feverishly building strategic airstrips on disputed reefs and islets in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. Last July, the UN Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled against China\u2019s claim of sovereignty over these islands. Although the action was brought by the Philippines, it was presented by leading American and British lawyers and can be traced to then US Secretary of State Hillary\u00a0Clinton.<\/p>\n

In 2010, Clinton flew to Manila. She demanded that America\u2019s former colony reopen the US military bases closed down in the 1990s following a popular campaign against the violence they generated, especially against Filipino women. She declared China\u2019s claim on the Spratly Islands \u2013 which lie more than 7,500 miles (12,000 kilometres) from the United States \u2013 a threat to US \u2018national security\u2019 and to \u2018freedom of\u00a0navigation\u2019.<\/p>\n

\"comingwar-john-pilger5\"<\/a>Handed millions of dollars in arms and military equipment, the then government of President Benigno Aquino broke off bilateral talks with China and signed a secretive Enhanced Defense Co-operation Agreement with the US. This established five rotating US bases and restored a hated colonial provision that American forces and contractors were immune from Philippine\u00a0law.<\/p>\n

Under the rubric of \u2018information dominance\u2019 \u2013 the jargon for media manipulation on which the Pentagon spends more than $4 billion \u2013 the Obama administration launched a propaganda campaign that cast China, the world\u2019s greatest trading nation, as a threat to \u2018freedom of\u00a0navigation\u2019.<\/p>\n

CNN led the way, its \u2018national security reporter\u2019 reporting excitedly from on board a US Navy surveillance flight over the Spratlys. The BBC persuaded frightened Filipino pilots to fly a single-engine Cessna over the disputed islands \u2018to see how the Chinese would react\u2019. None of the news reports questioned why the Chinese were building airstrips off their own coastline, or why American military forces were massing on China\u2019s\u00a0doorstep.<\/p>\n

The designated chief propagandist is Admiral Harry Harris, the US military commander in Asia and the Pacific. \u2018My responsibilities,\u2019 he told The New York Times<\/em>, \u2018cover Bollywood to Hollywood, from polar bears to penguins.\u2019 Never was imperial domination described as\u00a0pithily.<\/p>\n

Malleable media and obsequious partners<\/strong><\/p>\n

Harris is one of a brace of Pentagon admirals and generals briefing selected, malleable journalists and broadcasters, with the aim of justifying a threat as specious as that with which George W Bush and Tony Blair justified the destruction of\u00a0Iraq.<\/p>\n

In Los Angeles in September, Harris declared he was \u2018ready to confront a revanchist Russia and an assertive China\u2026 If we have to fight tonight, I don\u2019t want it to be a fair fight. If it\u2019s a knife fight, I want to bring a gun. If it\u2019s a gun fight, I want to bring in the artillery\u2026 and all our partners with their\u00a0artillery.\u2019<\/p>\n

These \u2018partners\u2019 include South Korea, an American colony in all but name and the launch pad for the Pentagon\u2019s Terminal High Altitude Air Defense system, known as THAAD, ostensibly aimed at North Korea. As Professor Postol points out, it targets\u00a0China.<\/p>\n

In Sydney, Australia, Harris called on China to \u2018tear down its Great Wall in the South China Sea\u2019. The imagery was front-page news. Australia is America\u2019s most obsequious \u2018partner\u2019; its political elite, military, intelligence agencies and the dominant Murdoch media are fully integrated into what is known as the \u2018alliance\u2019. Closing the Sydney Harbour Bridge for the motorcade of a visiting American government \u2018dignitary\u2019 is not uncommon. The war criminal Dick Cheney was afforded this\u00a0honour.<\/p>\n

Although China is Australia\u2019s biggest trader, on which much of the national economy relies, \u2018confronting China\u2019 is the diktat from Washington. The few political dissenters in Canberra risk McCarthyite smears in the Murdoch press. \u2018You in Australia are with us come what may,\u2019 said one of the architects of the Vietnam War, McGeorge Bundy. One of the most important US bases is Pine Gap near Alice Springs. Founded by the CIA, it spies on China and all of Asia, and is a vital contributor to Washington\u2019s murderous war by drone in the Middle\u00a0East.<\/p>\n

In October, Richard Marles, the defence spokesperson of the main Australian opposition party, the Labor Party, demanded that \u2018operational decisions\u2019 in provocative acts against China be left to military commanders in the South China Sea. In other words, a decision that could mean war with a nuclear power should not be taken by an elected leader or a parliament but by an admiral or a\u00a0general.<\/p>\n

This is the Pentagon line, a historic departure for any state calling itself a democracy. The ascendancy of the Pentagon in Washington \u2013 which Daniel Ellsberg has called a silent coup \u2013 is reflected in the record $5 trillion the United States has spent on aggressive wars since 9\/11, according to a study by Brown University. The million dead in Iraq and the flight of 12 million refugees from at least four countries are the\u00a0consequence.<\/p>\n

\u2018I state clearly and with conviction,\u2019 said Obama in 2009, \u2018America\u2019s commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.\u2019 Under Obama, nuclear warhead spending has risen higher than under any president since the end of the Cold War. A mini nuclear weapon is planned. Known as the B61 Model 12, it will mean, says General James Cartwright, former vice-chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that \u2018going smaller [makes its use] more\u00a0thinkable\u2019.<\/p>\n

Peaceful resistance<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Japanese island of Okinawa has 32 military installations, from which Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan and Iraq have been attacked by the United States. Today, the principal target is China, with whom Okinawans have close cultural and trade\u00a0ties.<\/p>\n

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In 1959 a US fighter plane crashed into Miyamori School, Okinawa, killing a number of children.<\/p><\/div>\n

There are military aircraft constantly in the sky over Okinawa; they sometimes crash into homes and schools. People cannot sleep, teachers cannot teach. Wherever they go in their own country, they are fenced in and told to keep\u00a0out.<\/p>\n

A hugely popular Okinawan movement<\/a> has been growing since a 12-year-old girl was gang-raped by US troops in 1995. It was one of hundreds of such crimes, many of them never prosecuted. Barely acknowledged in the wider world, the resistance in Okinawa is a vivid expression of how ordinary people can peacefully take on a military giant, and threaten to\u00a0win.<\/p>\n

Their campaign has elected Japan\u2019s first anti-base governor, Takeshi Onaga, and presented an unfamiliar hurdle to the Tokyo government and the ultra-nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe\u2019s plans to repeal Japan\u2019s \u2018peace\u00a0constitution\u2019.<\/p>\n

The resistance leaders include Fumiko Shimabukuro, aged 87, a survivor of the Second World War, when a quarter of Okinawans died in the American invasion. Fumiko and hundreds of others took refuge in beautiful Henoko Bay, which she is now fighting to save. The US wants to destroy the bay in order to extend runways for its bombers. As we gathered peacefully outside the US base, Camp Schwab, giant Sea Stallion helicopters hovered over us for no reason other than to\u00a0intimidate.<\/p>\n

Across the East China Sea lies the Korean island of Jeju, a semi-tropical sanctuary and World Heritage Site declared \u2018an island of world peace\u2019. On this island of world peace has been built one of the most provocative military bases in the world, less than 400 miles (650 kilometres) from Shanghai. The fishing village of Gangjeong is dominated by a South Korean naval base purpose-built for US aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines and destroyers equipped with the Aegis missile system, aimed at\u00a0China.<\/p>\n

A people\u2019s resistance to these war preparations has become a presence on Jeju for almost a decade. Every day, often twice a day, villagers, Catholic priests and supporters from all over the world stage a religious mass that blocks the gates of the base. In a country where political demonstrations are often banned, unlike powerful religions, the tactic has produced an inspiring\u00a0spectacle.<\/p>\n

The world is shifting east, but the astonishing vision of Eurasia from China is barely understood in the West.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

One of the leaders, Father Mun Jeong-hyeon, told me, \u2018I sing four songs every day at the base, regardless of the weather. I sing in typhoons \u2013 no exception. To build this base, they destroyed the environment, and the life of the villagers, and we should be a witness to that. They want to rule the Pacific. They want to make China isolated in the world. They want to be emperor of the\u00a0world.\u2019<\/p>\n

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South Korean woodcarver and Catholic priest, Father Mun Jeong-hyeon, leads a daily protest against the building of a naval base that the US will use to target China. Bruno Sorrentino and John Pilger<\/p><\/div>\n

I flew to Shanghai for the first time in more than a generation. When I was last in China, the loudest noise I remember was the tinkling of bicycle bells; Mao Zedong had recently died, and the cities seemed dark places, in which foreboding and expectation competed. Within a few years, Deng Xiaoping, the \u2018man who changed China\u2019, was the \u2018paramount leader\u2019. Nothing prepared me for the astonishing changes\u00a0today.<\/p>\n

I met Lijia Zhang, a Beijing journalist and typical of a new class of outspoken mavericks. Her best-selling book has the ironic title Socialism Is Great!<\/em> She grew up during the chaotic and brutal Cultural Revolution and has lived in the US and Europe. \u2018Many Americans imagine,\u2019 she said, \u2018that Chinese people live a miserable, repressed life with no freedom whatsoever. The [idea of] the yellow peril has never left them\u2026 They have no idea there are some 500 million people being lifted out of poverty, and some would say it\u2019s 600\u00a0million.\u2019<\/p>\n

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China today: a tourist snaps the bull of capitalism in front of Shanghai\u2019s Bund hotel, bedecked with communist flags. Bruno Sorrentino and John Pilger<\/p><\/div>\n

She described modern China as a \u2018golden cage\u2019. \u2018Since the reforms started,\u2019 she said, \u2018and we\u2019ve become so much better off, China has become one of the most unequal societies in the world. There are lots of protests now: typically, land being grabbed by officials for commercial development. But farmers are more aware of their rights; and young factory workers are demanding a better wage and\u00a0conditions.\u2019<\/p>\n

The world is shifting east<\/strong><\/p>\n

China today presents perfect ironies, not least the house in Shanghai where Mao and his comrades secretly founded the Communist Party of China in 1921. Today, it stands in the heart of a very capitalist shopping district; you walk out of this communist shrine with your Little Red Book and your plastic bust of Mao into the embrace of Starbucks, Apple, Cartier,\u00a0Prada.<\/p>\n

Would Mao be shocked? I doubt it. Five years before his great revolution in 1949, he sent this secret message to Washington. \u2018China must industrialize,\u2019 he wrote. \u2018This can only be done by free enterprise. Chinese and American interests fit together, economically and politically. America need not fear that we will not be co-operative. We cannot risk any\u00a0conflict.\u2019<\/p>\n

Mao offered to meet Franklin Roosevelt in the White House, and his successor Harry Truman, and his successor Dwight Eisenhower. He was rebuffed, or wilfully ignored. The opportunity that might have changed contemporary history, prevented wars in Asia and saved countless lives was lost because the truth of these overtures was denied in 1950s Washington \u2018when the catatonic Cold War trance,\u2019 wrote the critic James Naremore, \u2018held our country in its rigid\u00a0grip\u2019.<\/p>\n

Eric Li, a Shanghai venture capitalist and social scientist, told me, \u2018I make the joke: in America you can change political parties, but you can\u2019t change the policies. In China you cannot change the party, but you can change policies. The political changes that have taken place in China this past 66 years have been wider and broader and greater than probably in any other major country in living\u00a0memory.\u2019<\/p>\n

For all the difficulties of those left behind by China\u2019s rapid growth, such as workers from the countryside living on the edge in cities built for conspicuous consumption, and those Tiananmen brave-hearts still challenging \u2018the centre\u2019, the Party, what is striking is the widespread sense of optimism that buttresses the epic of\u00a0change.<\/p>\n

The world is shifting east; but the astonishing vision of Eurasia from China is barely understood in the West. The \u2018New Silk Road\u2019 is a ribbon of trade, ports, pipelines and high-speed trains all the way to Europe. China, the world\u2019s leader in rail technology, is negotiating with 28 countries for routes on which trains will reach up to 400 kilometres an hour. This opening to the world has the approval of much of humanity and, along the way, is uniting China and Russia; and they are doing it entirely without \u2018us\u2019 in the\u00a0West.<\/p>\n

We \u2013 or many of us \u2013 remain in thrall to the US, which has intervened violently in the affairs of a third of the members of the United Nations, destroying governments, subverting elections, imposing blockades. In the past five years, the US has shipped deadly weapons to 96 countries, most of them poor. Dividing societies in order to control them is US policy, as the tragedies in Iraq and Syria\u00a0demonstrate.<\/p>\n

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Protesters on Jeju, South Korea. Bruno Sorrentino and John Pilger<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018I believe in American exceptionalism with every fibre of my being,\u2019 said Barack Obama, evoking the national fetishism of the 1930s. This modern cult of superiority is Americanism<\/a>, the world\u2019s dominant predator. Accompanied by a brainwashing that presents it as enlightenment on the march, the conceit insinuates our\u00a0lives.<\/p>\n

In September, the Atlantic Council, a US geopolitical thinktank, published a report that predicted a Hobbesian world \u2018marked by the breakdown of order, violent extremism [and] an era of perpetual war\u2019. The new enemies were a \u2018resurgent\u2019 Russia and an \u2018increasingly aggressive\u2019 China. Only heroic America can save\u00a0us.<\/p>\n

There is a demented quality about this war-mongering. It is as if the \u2018American Century\u2019 \u2013 proclaimed in 1941 by the American imperialist Henry Luce, owner of Time<\/em> magazine \u2013 has ended without notice and no-one has had the courage to tell the emperor to take his guns and go\u00a0home.<\/p>\n

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\u2018The China trade\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

James Bradley <\/strong>is the author of the best-selling The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia <\/em>(Little Brown, 2015). In these excerpts from his interview with John Pilger<\/strong>, he describes how modern America was built on the \u2018China trade\u2019.<\/p>\n

James Bradley<\/strong>: For most of American history, it was illegal for someone like me to know a Chinese. The Chinese came to America to mine gold and build the railroads, and Americans decided we didn\u2019t like competition. So in 1882 we had the Chinese Exclusion Acts, which kept the Chinese out of the United States for about 100 years. Just at the point we were putting up the Statue of Liberty saying we welcome everybody, we were erecting a wall saying: \u2018We welcome everybody except those Chinese<\/em>.\u2019<\/p>\n

John Pilger<\/strong>: And yet, for the American elite in the 19th century, China was a goldmine.<\/p>\n

JB<\/strong>: A goldmine of drugs. Warren Delano, the grandfather of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was the American opium king of China; he was the biggest American opium dealer, second only to the British. Much of the east coast [establishment] of the United States \u2013 Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Princeton \u2013 was born of drug money. The American industrial revolution was funded by huge pools of money \u2013 where did this come from? It came from illegal drugs in the biggest market in the world: China.<\/p>\n

JP<\/strong>: So the grandfather of the most liberal president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was a drug runner?<\/p>\n

JB<\/strong>: Yes. Franklin Delano Roosevelt never made much money in his life. He had public-service jobs that were very lowly paid, but he inherited a fortune from Warren Delano, his father. Now if you scratch anyone with the name Forbes, you\u2019ll find opium money\u2026 such as John Forbes Kerry\u2026<\/p>\n

JP<\/strong>: That\u2019s the present Secretary of State.<\/p>\n

JB<\/strong>: Yes. His great-grandfather [Francis Blackwell Forbes] was an opium dealer. How big was opium money? Opium money built the first industrial city in the United States. It built the first five railroads. But it wasn\u2019t talked about. It was called the China trade.<\/p>\n

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\"john<\/a>John Pilger has won an Emmy and a BAFTA for his documentaries, which have also won numerous US and European awards. His articles appear worldwide in newspapers such as <\/em>The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Mail & Guardian (South Africa<\/em>), Aftonbladet (Sweden<\/em>), Il Manifesto (Italy<\/em>). He writes a regular column for the <\/em>New Statesman, London. In 2003, he was awarded the prestigious Sophie Prize for \u201930 years of exposing injustice and promoting human rights.\u2019 In 2009 he was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize. His latest film is The War You Don\u2019t See<\/a> (2010). He <\/em>can be reached through his website:\u00a0www.johnpilger.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

This feature was published in the December issue of <\/em>New Internationalist<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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