The Coming War on China Page #2
- Year:
- 2016
- 113 min
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second biggest economic power.
world's biggest military power,
with bases and missiles and ships
covering every continent, every ocean.
China is a threat to this
dominance, says Washington,
but who is the threat?
This film is about shifting
power and great danger.
It's also a film about the human spirit
and the rise of an extraordinary
resistance among people
on the front line of a coming war
where the words "never
again" have an urgent meaning
for all of us.
(somber music)
- [John Narrating] This is Bikini,
the rim of an ancient underwater volcano
in the Marshall Islands.
With its necklace of 23 islands,
Bikini is a place of beauty
and silence and menace.
Look closely where the Emerald Lagoon
suddenly falls into a vast black hole.
This is the crater of one of
the greatest manmade explosions,
the hydrogen bomb they call Bravo.
and poisoned almost
everything and everyone.
As our plane flew low, we seemed
in the vast Pacific Ocean
between the United States and Asia.
Captured from the
Japanese in World War Two,
they've long been
America's strategic secret,
it's stepping stone to Asia and China.
(guitar music)
People here sustain themselves
for thousands of years
with abundant fish,
breadfruit, and coconuts.
They were skilled navigators
who sailed by the stars.
Westerners might call this paradise.
All that changed in 1946
over the Marshall Islands
as a Trust Territory with an obligation
wellbeing of the people.
A nightmare began.
The islands were turned into a laboratory
for the testing of nuclear weapons
and the people into guinea pigs.
- Crossroads, scene 24, take two.
(clicks)
- [John Narrating] In
this propaganda film,
the Bikini islanders are being deceived.
Unknown to them, plans
were already underway
to destroy their paradise forever.
- Will you ask King Judah that
now wants to attempt to turn this great,
destructive force into
something good for mankind
and that these experiments here at Bikini
are the first step in that direction.
(speaks foreign language)
Tell them that's fine,
everything being in God's
hands, it must be good.
(speaks foreign language)
- [Announcer] 87 ships
off Bikini to suffer the shattering impact
- [John Narrating] An armada of warships
was assembled in Bikini Lagoon
in order to blow them to bits.
(chain clanking)
- [Announcer] The decks
of the 73 test ships
anchored in Bikini Lagoon
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