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The Coming War on China

  • 2016
  • TV-PG
  • 1h 53m
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The Coming War on China (2016)
From award winning journalist John Pilger, reveals what the news doesn't - that the world's greatest military power, the United States, and the world's second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, may well be on the road to war.
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From award winning journalist John Pilger, reveals what the news doesn't - that the world's greatest military power, the United States, and the world's second economic power, China, both nuc... Read allFrom award winning journalist John Pilger, reveals what the news doesn't - that the world's greatest military power, the United States, and the world's second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, may well be on the road to war.From award winning journalist John Pilger, reveals what the news doesn't - that the world's greatest military power, the United States, and the world's second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, may well be on the road to war.

  • Director
    • John Pilger
  • Writer
    • John Pilger
  • Stars
    • Franklin Blaisdell
    • James Bradley
    • Bruce Cumings
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    • Director
      • John Pilger
    • Writer
      • John Pilger
    • Stars
      • Franklin Blaisdell
      • James Bradley
      • Bruce Cumings
    • 47User reviews
    • 11Critic reviews
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    Franklin Blaisdell
    • Self - Space Ops & Integration Director
    • (archive footage)
    • (as General Franklin Blaisdell)
    James Bradley
    James Bradley
    • Self - Author: The China Mirage
    Bruce Cumings
    • Self - Historian as Professor Bruce Cumings
    Dana Rohrabacher
    Dana Rohrabacher
    • Self - Committee on Foreign Affairs
    • (as Congressman Dana Rohrabacher)
    Eric Li
    • Self - Entrepreneur & Social Scientist
    Barack Obama
    Barack Obama
    • Self - US President
    • (archive footage)
    Rinok Riklon
    • Self - Marshall Islander
    Nerje Joseph
    • Self - Marshall Islander
    Betty Edmond
    • Self - Marshall Islander
    Lemoyo Abon
    • Self - Marshall Islander
    Giff Johnson
    • Self - Editor: Marshall Islands Journal
    Gene Curbow
    • Self - US Nuclear Test Weatherman
    Thomas H. Armbruster
    • Self - US Ambassador to Marshall Islands
    Tony de Brum
    • Self - Foreign Minister of the Mrshall Islands
    • (archive footage)
    Darlene Keju
    • Self - World Council of Churches, Vancouver 1983
    • (archive footage)
    Rick Wayman
    • Self - Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
    Santa Korok
    • Self
    Abacca Anjain-Maddison
    • Self
    • Director
      • John Pilger
    • Writer
      • John Pilger
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    6siderite

    Very informative, but extremely biased as well, taking away from the experience

    As many reviewers noted, the film has a fantastic start. It explores the inhumane and criminal behavior of the U. S. in the Marshall Islands. If you didn't hate America before, you will now. The documentary portrays a country built upon savagely abusing and dominating other people which they don't even consider human enough. That's the truth, it's history, no argument there, and most of it is propaganda-ed away and slowly washed to protect the image America wants to project. One can get behind that.

    However, the rest of the film continues in the same sensationalist way to attack American exceptionalism and disregard for other nations, portrays China as an innocent victim and the U. S. as an imperialist aggressor, filling the Earth with military bases that can only lead to a devastating war. That part is pure propaganda, too, and the quality of the content drops immediately and stays down.

    If this would have been a 45 minute documentary about the rape of the Marshall Islands by the U. S., it would have probably won awards. As it is, it feels like a CGTN news item, created by a person who is clearly biased against America. A man can hope, but how wonderful it would have been to make a miniseries in which each episode was so viscerally against the military jingoism of a specific country? Start with the U. S., continue with China, go to the U. K., move to Russia and then down the list. Or to at least make an analysis that views all countries from the same lens. Alas, this documentary is not it.

    Bottom line: the first 45 minutes is a must watch. The rest is a waste of time, even if some of the content continues to be highly informative.

    I liked the way Japanese and Korean people protest against the military bases that mar their islands. In Romania we can't even protest against log cutting without protesters getting seriously injured and their families threatened. I cannot imagine us protesting against American bases.
    MovieIQTest

    Shame on you, American government and military forces, and shame on you,

    All the reviewers who believed this film was a biased propaganda against America. Where were your humanity, your conscience, your morality, your basic logics, your ability to distinguish right and wrong? Shame on you, the reviewers with such blind patriotism to America even after watched this atrocious film about how the American government and its military forces used Bikini Island and its innocent islanders who lived on the island, used them as guinea pigs for their H bombs tests. These heartless reviewers without conscience would try their best to blame such kind of films are the tricks played by the far-left Liberals who usually mean the Democratic Party members. All the good things for human civilization were given by the conservatives, the Republican Party.

    Now, American government is doing it again to demonize China and trying their best to brain wash the majority of Americans by condemning the Chinese as the ultimate threat to America and the Americans. When a nation with its only working military power to dominate the world and tries to use its military power to decide what is wrong and what is right, to use its formidable weaponry to manipulate the wind direction against China, then it just so inevitably becomes what the doomed Roman Empire to fool itself and its people with the last hurrah. Now we have blindly put a crazy man into the White House, a guy almost as similar as the crazy guy who led the Nazi Germany into oblivion and total destruction, with the same old tricks of accusations, finger-pointing insults to almost everyone who's not see eye to eye with him. A guy who administrates the government and the nation with his iPhone Twitter, while allowing his daughter to represent him as the royal princess to visit foreign countries and in the meantime, to promote her own commercial territories. Just within 2 years after this guy's inauguration, the fortune and the wealth of her and her husband have increased another $82 million dollars. While making her profit by contracting or subcontracting the Chinese factories to churn out her products, her father is claiming the trade war with China, and conspiring a war with China. There's no logic whatsoever to what he is doing now. The trade war against China would never has any impact to him, his Party, those morons in the Senate and the Congress, but would put the 99% ordinary Americans into a more difficult living condition. I am quite sure that the most popular chain store in Ameirca, the 99Cents Stores, would never survive since most of their goods from China are either @ or under $1.00 since the general goods, the must-have and the must-use products, after a 25% import tax hike, would become impossible to remain unchanged. And we, the common people are doomed.

    When you use the same ideology patriotism to fool most of the naive Americans, you are no different from the Chinese Communist Party leader, and your Party is no better than your targeted enemy's Party. America, under the blind guidance of a crazy captain, has undoubtedly become a Ship of Fools.
    7marog-55162

    A great watch, with fresh perspective but not without some bias

    I'll leave to others to point out the many good parts in this which are not often heard about.

    On Mao though, although the great famine was briefly mentioned, it conveniently missed out that his regime was also directly responsible for 55 MILLION deaths and was, by quite some margin, the largest mass murderer in history. Let that sink in. God forbid we ever let history repeat itself, by the actions of either side. Bad stuff has happened in the past, acknowledge it, learn from it and most of all support open discussion without bias.
    5DocJD

    80s style documentary with even more outdated material

    Don't be fooled by the title. There's no light shed on what might play out between a rising China and US military conflict. This is a walk down memory lane with material from the post war US nuclear testing in the Pacific followed by some current affairs about the South China Sea Chinese installations. There wasn't enough content left so a major portion of the program focused on the objections of some local Okinawan groups concerning US airbases on the island. Most of the material worthy of any merit is from incidents in the early 60s. We get to hear about Pine Gap in Australia which was note worthy in the 80s. Overall the documentary seeks to portray the USA in as negative a light as possible. While this may have worked in the 80s this style detracts from the credibility of the film. Unfortunately no mention is made of North Korea which is the elephant in the room given the current state of affairs which would have made for good television...but alas I can't see the producers heading there to get a scoop on the facts.
    8rolfhu

    War criminals goring free

    Another documentary that shows how bad the united states are. The Nazis were bad and after they were beaten, the US started exactly the same. Starting wars include illegal wars, killing people by using them as test material for their nuclear weapons tests. But the world did nothing. Japan is today a Colonie of the US and South Korea is not better. An eye opener that should be at all schools in the world to see facts of the real America.

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    • Trivia
      The film ends with the credit: «And with special thanks to our 1,119 individual crowd-funders» which are individually named in three columns of small print.
    • Connections
      Featured in Good Morning Britain: Episode dated 6 December 2016 (2016)
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      Composed and performed by musicians of the Marshall Islands

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    • Release date
      • December 5, 2016 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
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    • Languages
      • English
      • Japanese
      • Korean
      • Marshallese
    • Also known as
      • The Coming War On China
    • Filming locations
      • Marshall Islands(Airview of the Bikini Islands)
    • Production companies
      • Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)
      • The Bertha Foundation
      • The Reva and David Logan Foundation
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      • 1h 53m(113 min)
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