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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.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
Year:
2016
113 min
272 Views


If we think they're

doing something in trade

that we don't like, let's

have it out with them.

But this saber-rattling is

the worst thing we can possibly do.

(cheering)

- It is time to show the whole world

that America is back.

Bigger, and better, and

stronger than ever before.

We don't have victories anymore.

We used to have victories,

but we don't have 'em.

When was the last time

anybody saw us beating,

let's say China?

In a trade deal, they kill us.

We can't continue to allow China

to rape our country, and

that's what they're doing.

It's the greatest theft in

the history of the world.

(audience cheers)

- [John Narrating] The new

president, Donald Trump,

has a problem with China.

The urgent question now is,

will Trump continue with the provocations

revealed in this film and take

us all to the edge of war?

- There never have been two countries

more interdependent on each other

than China and the US in history.

And China is the largest trading nation

in the world and in history.

So China's economy and their

societies, their lives,

are linked to the entire world.

Including America and the West

and all the other countries.

So I think interdependence

between these two countries

and among all the nations of the world,

speak to peace.

(gentle music)

- [John Narrating] We don't

have to accept the word

of those who conjure up

threats and false enemies

to justify the business and profit of war

if we recognize there

is another superpower,

and that's us.

Ordinary people everywhere,

like the people of Okinawa,

Jeju Island, the Marshall Islands,

China, the United States.

By speaking out, they deliver

a warning to all of us.

Can we really afford to be silent?

We'll meet again

Don't know where, don't know when

But I know we'll meet again

Some sunny day

Keep smiling through

Just like you always do

'Til the blue skies

drive the dark clouds

Far away

So will you please say hello

To the folks that I know

Tell them I won't be long

They'll be happy to know

That as you saw me go

I was singing this song

We'll meet again

Don't know where

Don't know when

But I know we'll meet again

Some sunny day

We'll meet again

Don't know where

Don't know when

But I know we'll meet again

Some sunny day

Keep smiling through

Just like you always do

'Til the blue skies drive

the dark clouds far away

So will you please say hello

To the folks that I know

Tell them I won't be long

They'll be happy to know

That as you saw me go

I was singing this song

We'll meet again

Don't know where

Don't know when

But I know we'll meet again

Some sunny day

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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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