bs2Feb 6, 2024
> Completed in the month Donald Trump was elected US President, the film investigates the manufacture of a ‘threat’ and the beckoning of a nuclear confrontation...
> .. naval forces would reinforce the US's ... superior military position in the region.. 400 American bases #SurroundChina with ships, missiles and troops, in an arc that extends from #Australia north through the Pacific to #Japan, #Korea and across Eurasia to #Afghanistan and #India
https://johnpilger.com/videos/the-coming-war-on-china
#ComingWarOnChina
The Coming War on China

The Coming War on China

bs2Sep 6, 2023

>  American arms stockpiles are dwindling as Washington attempts to transfer Kiev enough military equipment to keep its army fighting. The US additionally has plans to significantly increase arms transfers to Taiwan.

https://news.antiwar.com/2023/06/02/blinken-dismisses-calls-for-a-ceasefire-says-us-must-build-up-ukraines-military/

  #Ukraine #Taiwan #ComingWarOnChina #ArmsStockpiles #KyleAnzalone

Blinken Dismisses Calls for a Ceasefire, Says US Must Build Up Ukraine’s Military - News From Antiwar.com

The US will focus its efforts on arming Ukraine and not attempting to bring the war to a negotiated settlement, America’s top diplomat said. Secretary of State Antony Blinken laid out a plan to massively expand Kiev’s military before talks begin.In a speech delivered in Finland on Friday, Blinken stated, "The United States – together … Continue reading "Blinken Dismisses Calls for a Ceasefire, Says US Must Build Up Ukraine’s Military"

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Show threadBrian SmallAug 22, 2023

.> Even arch anti-communists like Nixon and Reagan made bold gambits to reduce tensions, fearful of global annihilation. We face a similar dynamic today, facing collective catastrophe if we do not change course..> Here is the insane dynamic that must be changed. In recent years, both the US and China have greatly increased their #MilitaryBudgets..> But organizing most of our national effort around a zero-sum global confrontation with China is unlikely to change Chinese behavior and will alienate allies and partners.....> Most importantly, it could doom our planet by making climate cooperation impossible between the world’s two largest greenhouse emitters. We need to move in a bold new direction. Recent history provides some instructive examples..> ... here’s a “radical” idea. Instead of spending enormous amounts of money planning for a war against each other, the US and China should come to an agreement to mutually cut their military budgets and use the savings to move aggressively to improve energy efficiency, move toward sustainable energy and end our reliance on fossil fuels. They should also provide increased support for developing countries who are suffering from the climate crisis through no fault of their own.....> In the United States, the Inflation Reduction Act included an unprecedented $300bn in investments in clean energy and energy efficiency, which could help increase US solar energy by 500% and more than double wind energy by 2035, reducing carbon emissions by roughly 40%..> Other countries have also made major investments. China spent $546bn on clean energy last year and continues to manufacture and deploy more renewable energy than the rest of the world combined.....> ... we are still falling well short of the kinds of investments needed to deal with this crisis. We are still not moving fast enough to save our planet. The latest report from the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects that without more urgent action, the world will pass the key 1.5C (2.7F) threshold by the early 2030s, risking a far deadlier future for our children and future generations. The science is clear: if the US, China, and the rest of the planet do not act with greater urgency to dramatically cut carbon emissions, our planet will face enormous and irreversible damage..> Now is the time for a radical rethinking of geopolitics to reflect the reality that international cooperation is not only in the best interests of all countries, but is absolutely necessary for the survival of the planet. #BernieSanders on #ClimateCatastrophe /HT #DavidSwanson
#ComingWarOnChina #ThePentagon #TheUSA #NewColdWar #USAandChina
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bs2Aug 21, 2023

> 44% of the world’s oceans are experiencing a marine heatwave.

> since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the US has put more carbon into the atmosphere, by far, than any other country. While the new technologies sustained by fossil fuels improved our standard of living, we laid the groundwork for the climate calamity the planet is now experiencing.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/21/us-bernie-sanders-china-climate-change-cooperation
#BernieSanders #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #China #TheUSA #NewColdWar #ComingWarOnChina
/HT #DavidSwanson

The US and China must unite to fight the climate crisis, not each other

Cooperation is not only in the best interests of all countries, but is absolutely necessary for the survival of the planet

The Guardian
bs2Apr 21, 2022
> Vijay Prashad, director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, says the “bellicose” tone out of Washington is not because the U.S. sees China as a military threat, but because China threatens U.S. dominance in the scientific, technological and diplomatic spheres. “It’s very chilling what the U.S. government is doing in ramping up this cold war,” says #Prashad.
https://www.democracynow.org/2021/3/16/vijay_prashad_us_china_rivalry
#VijayPrashad #ComingWarOnChina #ColdWar #USA #China #NearPeer
Vijay Prashad Warns Biden Is “Doubling Down” on Trump’s Anti-China Cold War Policy

Beijing has accused the U.S. of perpetuating a Cold War mentality as President Joe Biden and senior administration officials shore up alliances in the Pacific region to counter China’s growing influence and increasingly describe the country as a geopolitical threat. Vijay Prashad, director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, says the “bellicose” tone out of Washington is not because the U.S. sees China as a military threat, but because China threatens U.S. dominance in the scientific, technological and diplomatic spheres. “It’s very chilling what the U.S. government is doing in ramping up this cold war,” says Prashad.

Democracy Now!
bs2Apr 21, 2022
> The United States government has not signed the international laws of the seas, and yet it prosecutes so-called freedom of navigation missions against not only #China in the #SouthChinaSea, using this U.N. Charter, which it’s not a signatory of, but it has been provoking clashes with #Russia in the #BlackSea, in the #BalticSea and in the #ArcticSea, again, using these so-called #FreedomOfNavigation missions.
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/4/15/vijay_prashad_russia_ukraine_global_south
#VijayPrashad #InternationalLaw #ComingWarOnChina #USA
Vijay Prashad Criticizes the West’s “Open, Rank Hypocrisy” on Ukraine

As the Russian invasion in Ukraine enters its 50th day, we look at the war’s impact around the world with Vijay Prashad, author and director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. “When food prices go up, the political crisis is almost immediate,” says Prashad, who calls the U.S. pressure on Global South countries to cut off essential imports from Russia after a 30-year globalization campaign a double standard. He says if the U.S. encourages greater global division in order to isolate Russia and China, they will implicitly plunge developing countries “into even greater catastrophe.” He also says the West — led by the Biden administration — is pursuing a “casual weaponization of human rights and the word genocide.”

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bs2Mar 22, 2022
> In 1949, China declared independence, an event known in Western discourse as “the #LossOfChina” — in the U.S., with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss. The terminology is revealing. It is only possible to lose something that one owns. The tacit assumption was that the #USA owned #China, by right, along with most of
the rest of the world
https://chomsky.info/20120214/
#JohnPilger's #ComingWarOnChina #documentary made me think of these lines by #NoamChomsky
“Losing” the World: American Decline in Perspective, Part 1

The Noam Chomsky Website.

bs2Mar 22, 2022
> .. a US captain.. questioned..that he'd been given an order to fire a missile at China when..the crew was watching on television the Cuban Missile Crisis..it had..nothing to do with #China. So he ordered several of his crew to go to another launch pad..draw their 45s and tell them to stop..
https://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2016/12/transcript-john-pilger-coming-war-china-9-december-16
#MaceMissiles in #Okinawa #JohnPilger #NoNukes #ComingWarOnChina
Transcript: John Pilger: The Coming War On China - 9 December '16

Thom Hartmann: Hello. I'm Thom Hartmann, in Washington DC. Welcome to the Big Picture. If you watched any of Donald Trump's rallies this year, you might have heard him rant and rave against China. The way he put it - and continues to put it - China is America's mortal enemy, an adversary for the 21st century and beyond.

Thom Hartmann - News & info from the #1 progressive radio show
bs2Mar 21, 2022
> There has been quite a bit of news both in the US and over here about #China building air strips in the #SpratlyIslands in the #SouthChinaSea and almost nothing about the fact that the #USA has surrounded China with some four hundred military bases that stretch all the way from #Australia through the Pacific up through #Asia, #Korea, #Japan and across #Eurasia.
https://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2016/12/transcript-john-pilger-coming-war-china-9-december-16
#JohnPilger and #ThomHartmann on #ComingWarOnChina #China #BaseNation #DavidVine
Transcript: John Pilger: The Coming War On China - 9 December '16

Thom Hartmann: Hello. I'm Thom Hartmann, in Washington DC. Welcome to the Big Picture. If you watched any of Donald Trump's rallies this year, you might have heard him rant and rave against China. The way he put it - and continues to put it - China is America's mortal enemy, an adversary for the 21st century and beyond.

Thom Hartmann - News & info from the #1 progressive radio show
bs2Mar 18, 2022
>... the #Korean island of Jeju, a semi-tropical sanctuary and World Heritage Site declared ‘an island of world peace’. On this island..has been built one of the most provocative military bases..less than 400 miles from #Shanghai..#Gangjeong is dominated by a #SouthKorean naval base purpose-built for #USA aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines and destroyers..with the Aegis missile system, aimed at #China.
https://newint.org/features/2016/12/01/the-coming-war-on-china/
more #Geography from #JohnPilger #documentary #ComingWarOnChina
The coming war on China

A major US military build-up – including nuclear weapons – 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 provocation.

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