The Coming War on China Page #19

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- Sometimes we just wait.

Typhoon, typhoon strike!

- [John] Do you sing then?

Do you have a Mass when

the typhoons strike?

- Oh yes.

No exceptions.

- [John] What will happen

if this base becomes operational?

- They have destroyed the environment,

they destroy the life of all of us.

We should be witness of their

oppression and violence.

- [John] Why do they do it?

- They'd like to rule the

Pacific area, the whole area.

They'd like to make China

isolated in this globe.

The US government want to

be in power of this world.

(laughs)

- [John Narrating] Meanwhile,

a Quaker called Mr. Oh

joins them with his own ritual of protest,

accompanied by an artist

called Wild Flower.

- [John Narrating] This

is the center of an empire

that never speaks its name,

whose power is represented in

this extraordinary world map

of American military bases.

4000 bases in the United States,

almost 1000 bases spread

across every continent.

- The archipelago of empire,

the bases that we have around the world

hidden in plain sight are the

real territory of our empire

but at the same time we

maintain independent governments

in Japan or South Korea or Germany.

They don't have autonomy when

it comes to foreign policy.

So it's a very sophisticated

and effective system

whereby we pat ourselves on the back for

helping to midwife democracy in Japan

and Germany and South Korea

and various other places

while keeping the lid

on in that we don't know

what these countries would do if they were

fully independent.

And the beauty of this system is that

most people pay no attention to it at all.

They think it's just a natural occurrence

to have 50,000 American troops in Japan.

- There's no country that has

better anti-imperial credit--

(laughs) cred, then the United States.

And we are not trying to recreate

the glories of the British Empire.

We're arguing that the world is round.

We have a global policy

and all nations have global rights.

- No ocean has ever been dominated

the way the US dominates the

Pacific, Navy and Air Force.

They claim that in the

Pearl Harbor headquarters

of the Pacific Command,

they claim to be responsible

for 52 percent of the Earth's surface.

And when you look at their logo,

it shows an eagle over

the Aleutian Islands

with one tail coming down

somewhere near Seattle

and the other coming

down right over Beijing.

So Beijing looks at a network of bases,

a real archipelago of empire

that's been built up since the Korean War.

- You have had and still have

an arc of bases that start in Australia

and go through the Pacific--

- No.

We have no bases in Australia.

- You have Pine Gap, you have Darwin--

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