The Coming War on China Page #4

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- Yes.

- [John Narrating] Fish,

vegetables and fruit

were once abundant on Ebeye.

Today, fish is contaminated

by toxic pollutants

says the Environmental Protection Agency.

Now the only food most people can afford

is processed and imported.

They have the highest rate

of diabetes in the world.

- When someone gets really ill,

do they go to the

hospital over on the base

because they've got a pretty

modern clinic over there.

- They don't treat them with medicine.

They just go there for taking

the plug and then x-ray.

- So what happens when

somebody is seriously ill?

- They cannot do anything.

- The most consistent example given

is the example of the

Ronald Reagan Missile Site

and Ebeye next to it.

On the Ronald Reagan Missile Site

is a vivid example of the United States,

golf courses and swimming pools

and all kinds of amenities.

Right next to it is what is

called the slum of the Pacific.

- It's a challenge.

Ebeye is in great need right now.

We've talked about infrastructure.

One of the projects the US is working with

our Australian colleagues and

with the Asia Development Bank

is a sewer and water project

desperately needed for Ebeye.

Ebeye's overcrowded,

the schools need repair.

- Actually, the US military

did a survey back in the 70's

and found that the sewers didn't work

and the water didn't run and

the electricity wasn't there.

It only happened not all that long ago

they found almost exactly the same thing.

Why hasn't that been fixed?

- There's complete agreement

that Ebeye should be a priority

and not only because of

the current activities

of the Ronald Reagan Space

and Missile Defense Site,

but there's also now

an additional component

that is providing for global security

and that's the Space Fence

Project by the Air Force.

- [John Narrating] Every missile fired

on the Marshall Islands by the US military

costs 100 million dollars each.

This derelict school bus

is the only one on Ebeye.

They can't afford to replace it.

- The base is not good for us,

the people of Marshall Islands,

we have no need for it.

- [John] It's been used to test missiles

to fire at countries like China.

- Yes, and anywhere else if they want to.

- [John] What would you

like to see happen there?

- I want our land back.

(violin music)

- [John Narrating] This is Shanghai,

the historic port on the Yangtze River,

China's greatest city.

I have arranged to meet

the American author

James Bradley, whose

latest best-selling book

The China Mirage, reveals an

extraordinary hidden history

of American power and modern China.

- It was almost illegal

for someone like me

to know of Chinese for almost

all of American history.

The Chinese came to America to mine gold

and build the railroads

and Americans decided

we didn't like the competition,

so in 1882 we had the

Chinese Exclusion Acts

which kept the Chinese

out of the United States

for about 100 years.

So you have the largest

population in the world

that can't come to the United States,

so at just the point we're putting up

the Statue of Liberty

saying, we welcome everybody,

we were erecting a wall saying,

we welcome everybody except those Chinese.

- [John Narrating] Fear

of a rising China today

is the latest chapter in

a history of propaganda

that presented the Chinese

as uncouth and infantile.

To western popular and political culture,

the Chinese became the Yellow Peril.

(piano music)

And racial stereotypes

bore the constant theme

of fear and threat.

- [Announcer] Boris Karloff

as the evil Fu Manchu.

His passion for power

twisting his brilliant mind

as he revels in the horrors of

human sacrifice and torture.

Behind the mask of Fu Manchu.

- [John Narrating] This

caricature of an entire people

concealed another agenda: opium.

For the American elite

in the 19th century,

China was a goal mine of drugs.

- Warren Delano,

the grandfather of

Franklin Delano Roosevelt,

was the American opium king of China.

He was the biggest American opium dealer

second to the British.

He welcomed the first

American ship into China

to help out with the opium wars.

Much of the east coast of America,

Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Princeton,

were born from opium money.

The American Industrial Revolution

was funded by huge pools of money.

Where did this come from?

It came from illegal drugs

in the biggest market in the world: China.

- Let me get this right.

The grandfather of arguably

the most liberal president,

Franklin Delano Roosevelt,

was a drug runner.

- Yes sir.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt never

made much money in his life.

He had public service jobs

that were very lowly paid,

but he had yachts, he had summer homes,

he had mansions in New York City.

The kids went to private schools.

He inherited a fortune from

Warren Delano, his father,

who was the American opium king of China.

If you scratch anyone with

the name Forbes in their name,

John Forbes Kerry, Secretary

of State John Forbes Kerry--

- That's the present Secretary of State.

- Yes sir.

You'll find opium money.

His great-grandfather was an opium dealer.

How big was opium money?

Opium money built the

first industrial city

in the United States,

Lowell, Massachusetts.

It built the first five

railroads in the United States.

Opium money all over the east coast,

but it wasn't talked about.

It was called the China Trade.

And if you go to various museums,

you can see teas and silks exhibited

and they keep quiet about

all that big opium money.

- [John Narrating] In the

scramble to get opium money,

China was invaded and colonized

by Britain and the other imperial powers.

Foreign armies grabbed

whole swaths of China.

This is the American

army in Tiananmen Square,

Peking, in 1900.

Great cities like Shanghai were taken over

and declared concessions

and foreigners lived a life

of privilege and luxury

amidst terrible poverty

imposed on the Chinese.

A resistance known as the Boxer Rebellion

was put down with a savagery.

This rape of China set the tone

for how China was perceived in the West

well into the 20th century.

This is the distinguished historian

Theodore H. White, an

advisor to the White House,

speaking in the 1960's.

- Perhaps China is too vast

to be governed by mercy.

Yet if Chinese mind craves order,

they must be brought to recognize

they are the biggest factor

in the world's disorder.

And we must untangle the

madness of their mind.

The most difficult task in the world

is to reach the minds of men who hate you.

- [John Narrating] What White

was really complaining about

was the loss of a China that

the imperial West could dominate

and the defeat of General Chiang Kai-Shek,

who with his famously

powerful Christian wife,

Mei-ling Soong, guarded

America's interests in China.

That is, until they

were thrown out in 1949

by a communist revolution

led by Mao Zedong.

- Mao had beaten Chiang

Kai-Shek three times

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