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Synopsis: The Coming War on China is John Pilger's 60th film for ITV. Pilger reveals what the news doesn't - that the United States and the world's second economic power, China (both nuclear armed) are on the road to war. Pilger's film is a warning and an inspiring story of resistance.
 
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Year:
2016
113 min
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second biggest economic power.

The United States is the

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.

It vaporized an entire island

and poisoned almost

everything and everyone.

As our plane flew low, we seemed

to touch its deathly void.

The Marshall Islands lie

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

when the United States took

over the Marshall Islands

as a Trust Territory with an obligation

to protect the health and

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

the United States government

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

take position three miles

off Bikini to suffer the shattering impact

of the fifth atomic bomb.

- [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

are scenes of feverish activity

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John Pilger

John Richard Pilger (; born 9 October 1939) is an Australian journalist and BAFTA award-winning documentary film maker. He has been mainly based in the United Kingdom since 1962.Pilger is a strong critic of American, Australian and British foreign policy, which he considers to be driven by an imperialist agenda. Pilger has also criticised his native country's treatment of Indigenous Australians. He first drew international acclaim for his groundbreaking reports on the Cambodian genocide.His career as a documentary film maker began with The Quiet Mutiny (1970), made during one of his visits to Vietnam, and has continued with over fifty documentaries since then. Other works in this form include Year Zero (1979), about the aftermath of the communist regime in Cambodia, and Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy (1993). Pilger's many documentary films on indigenous Australians include The Secret Country (1985) and Utopia (2013). In the British print media, Pilger worked at the Daily Mirror from 1963 to 1986, and wrote a regular column for the New Statesman magazine from 1991 to 2014. Pilger has won Britain's Journalist of the Year Award in 1967 and 1979. His documentaries have gained awards in Britain and worldwide, including multiple BAFTA honors. The practices of the mainstream media are a regular subject in Pilger's writing. more…

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