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VS: China is een gevaar, terwijl China, uh de VS dat land omsingeld heeft met 400 bases………..

Afgelopen vrijdag in de tweede editie van Information Clearing House, een interview met John Pilger, o.a. filmmaker. Zijn nieuwe film, ‘The Coming War on China’, handelt o.a. over de agressie van de VS tegen China en de VS staatspropaganda (inclusief haat- en angstzaaien), die één op één wordt overgenomen door de reguliere media in de VS (en langzaam maar zeker ook die in de rest van het westen), propaganda waarmee China als een bedreiging wordt neergezet……. 

Volgens Pilger en zoals u zelf wellicht al elders heeft gezien of gelezen, wordt zoals gezegd China als een bedreiging afgeschilderd voor de VS, in de reguliere media aldaar……… Terwijl tegelijkertijd, de VS met maar liefst 400 militaire bases China omsingeld houdt, iets wat uiteraard geen aandacht krijgt in diezelfde media. Zoals dat hier gaat, als de reguliere mediaorganen het hebben over Oekraïne en De Krim, de feiten worden welbewust achtergehouden. Zo spreekt men nog steeds over de annexatie van De Krim, terwijl dat land in een door internationale waarnemers goedgekeurd en geldig referendum massaal koos voor aansluiting bij Rusland!*

Hier het artikel (waaronder u voor een vertaling kan klikken >> dutch): 

“Confronting
China”

By
John Pilger

October
28, 2016 “Information
Clearing House”
– 

TJC: Please
tell us about your new film, The
Coming War on China.

JP: The
Coming War on China is
my 60th film and perhaps one of the most urgent. It continues the
theme of illuminating the imposition of great power behind a facade
of propaganda as news.  In 2011, President Obama announced a
‘pivot to Asia’ of US forces: almost two-thirds of American naval
power would be transferred to Asia and the Pacific by 2020.

The
undeclared rationale for this was the ‘threat’ from China, by
some measure now the greatest economic power. The Secretary of
Defense, Ash Carter, says US policy is to confront those ‘who see
America’s dominance and want to take that away from us’.

The
film examines power in both countries and how nuclear weapons, in
American eyes, are the bedrock of its dominance. In its first
‘chapter’, the film reveals how most of the population of the
Marshall Islands in the Pacific were unwittingly made into nuclear
guinea pigs in a programme whose secrets – and astonishing archive
– are related to the presence of a missile base now targeting
China. The
Coming War on China will
be released in cinemas in the UK on December 1st and broadcast on ITV
(in the UK) on December 6th.

TJC: How
do you assess Australia’s role in America’s ‘Pivot to Asia’?

JP:
Australia is virtually the 51st state of the US.  Although China
is Australia’s biggest trader, on which much of the national
economy relies, ‘confronting China’ is the diktat from
Washington. The Australian political establishment, especially the
military and intelligence agencies, are fully integrated into what is
known as the ‘alliance’, along with the dominant Murdoch media. I
often feel a certain sadness about the way my own country – with
all its resources and opportunities – seems locked into such an
unnecessary, dangerous obsequious role in the world. If the ‘pivot’
proceeds, Australia could find itself fighting, yet again, a great
power’s war.

TJC: With
regards to the British and American media, how can the US get away
with selling China as a 

threat when it is encircling China?

JP:
That’s a question that goes to the heart of modern-day propaganda.
China is encircled by a ‘noose’ of some 400 US bases, yet the
news has ignored this while concentrating on the ‘threat’ of
China building airstrips on disputed islets in the South China Sea,
clearly as a defence to a US Navy blockade.

TJC: Obama’s
visit to Japan, and particularly to Hiroshima, was a really cynical
act. What was your impression of Japan and the political situation
there?

JP:
Japan is an American colony in all but name – certainly in terms of
its relationship with the rest of the world and especially China. The
historian Bruce Cumings explores this in an interview in the film.
 Within the constraints of American dominance, indeed undeterred
by Washington, Japan’s current prime minister Shinzo Abe has
developed an extreme nationalist position, in which contrition for
Japanese actions in the Second World War is anathema and the post-war
‘peace constitution’ is likely to be changed.

Abe
has gone as far as boasting that Japan will use nuclear weapons if it
wants. In any US conflict with China, Japan – which last year
announced its biggest ever ‘defence’ budget – would play a
critical role. There are 32 US military installations on the Japanese
island of Okinawa, facing China. However, there is a sense in modern
Asia that power in the world has indeed moved east and peaceful
‘Asian solutions’ to regional animosities are possible.

TJC:
Do you think the new trade and investment deals like the
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and especially
the Transpacific Partnership (TPP) will affect China’s business
operations?

JP:
It’s difficult to say, but I doubt it. What is remarkable about the
rise of China is the way it has built, almost in the blink of an eye,
a trade, investment and banking structure that rivals that of the
Bretton Woods institutions. Unknown to many of us, China is
developing its ‘New Silk Road’ to Europe at an astonishing pace.
China’s response to threats from Washington is a diplomacy that’s
tied to this development, and which includes a burgeoning alliance
with Russia.

T.J.
Coles is
the author of Britain’s
Secret Wars (2016,
Clairview Books).

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* Die internationale waarnemers worden nu meer en meer afgeschilderd als onbetrouwbaar. Zo hoorde ik vorige week een discussie op BBC World Service, waar men sprak over waarnemers als onbetrouwbaar….. Tja, zo kan je alsnog als agressor zeggen, dat democratische verkiezingen in een land dat je toch al wilt aanvallen, ongeldig zijn!!

Zie ook: ‘Deutschland verschärft die Gangart gegen China‘ (Duitsland stopt met toenadering tot China; met grote instemming van de VS terreurentiteit)

Voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, klik op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden, dit geldt niet voor het label ‘Cumings’.