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The Coming War on China

  • 2016
  • TV-PG
  • 1h 53m
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The Coming War on China (2016)
From award winning journalist John Pilger, reveals what the news doesn't - that the world's greatest military power, the United States, and the world's second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, may well be on the road to war.
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From award winning journalist John Pilger, reveals what the news doesn't - that the world's greatest military power, the United States, and the world's second economic power, China, both nuc... Read allFrom award winning journalist John Pilger, reveals what the news doesn't - that the world's greatest military power, the United States, and the world's second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, may well be on the road to war.From award winning journalist John Pilger, reveals what the news doesn't - that the world's greatest military power, the United States, and the world's second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, may well be on the road to war.

  • Director
    • John Pilger
  • Writer
    • John Pilger
  • Stars
    • Franklin Blaisdell
    • James Bradley
    • Bruce Cumings
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    • Director
      • John Pilger
    • Writer
      • John Pilger
    • Stars
      • Franklin Blaisdell
      • James Bradley
      • Bruce Cumings
    • 47User reviews
    • 11Critic reviews
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    Franklin Blaisdell
    • Self - Space Ops & Integration Director
    • (archive footage)
    • (as General Franklin Blaisdell)
    James Bradley
    James Bradley
    • Self - Author: The China Mirage
    Bruce Cumings
    • Self - Historian as Professor Bruce Cumings
    Dana Rohrabacher
    Dana Rohrabacher
    • Self - Committee on Foreign Affairs
    • (as Congressman Dana Rohrabacher)
    Eric Li
    • Self - Entrepreneur & Social Scientist
    Barack Obama
    Barack Obama
    • Self - US President
    • (archive footage)
    Rinok Riklon
    • Self - Marshall Islander
    Nerje Joseph
    • Self - Marshall Islander
    Betty Edmond
    • Self - Marshall Islander
    Lemoyo Abon
    • Self - Marshall Islander
    Giff Johnson
    • Self - Editor: Marshall Islands Journal
    Gene Curbow
    • Self - US Nuclear Test Weatherman
    Thomas H. Armbruster
    • Self - US Ambassador to Marshall Islands
    Tony de Brum
    • Self - Foreign Minister of the Mrshall Islands
    • (archive footage)
    Darlene Keju
    • Self - World Council of Churches, Vancouver 1983
    • (archive footage)
    Rick Wayman
    • Self - Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
    Santa Korok
    • Self
    Abacca Anjain-Maddison
    • Self
    • Director
      • John Pilger
    • Writer
      • John Pilger
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    8rolfhu

    War criminals goring free

    Another documentary that shows how bad the united states are. The Nazis were bad and after they were beaten, the US started exactly the same. Starting wars include illegal wars, killing people by using them as test material for their nuclear weapons tests. But the world did nothing. Japan is today a Colonie of the US and South Korea is not better. An eye opener that should be at all schools in the world to see facts of the real America.
    6Jeremy_Urquhart

    Not bad, just disappointing by John Pilger's regular standards

    I've really enjoyed Pilger's other documentaries but this one disappointed me. It's mostly technically competent (some inconsistent sound with Pilger's narration occasionally), and I'll give it props for its good intentions.

    It covers issues that aren't talked about much, the same as many of Pilger's works, but the issue is the execution rather than the content. Things don't build and progress in a satisfying way, and the different subjects weren't linked together as coherently as I feel different (but related) subjects were in his other documentaries that I've watched.

    So overall it's definitely not terrible, especially because of what it's trying to do- it's just disappointing when judged by how engaging it is.
    MovieIQTest

    Shame on you, American government and military forces, and shame on you,

    All the reviewers who believed this film was a biased propaganda against America. Where were your humanity, your conscience, your morality, your basic logics, your ability to distinguish right and wrong? Shame on you, the reviewers with such blind patriotism to America even after watched this atrocious film about how the American government and its military forces used Bikini Island and its innocent islanders who lived on the island, used them as guinea pigs for their H bombs tests. These heartless reviewers without conscience would try their best to blame such kind of films are the tricks played by the far-left Liberals who usually mean the Democratic Party members. All the good things for human civilization were given by the conservatives, the Republican Party.

    Now, American government is doing it again to demonize China and trying their best to brain wash the majority of Americans by condemning the Chinese as the ultimate threat to America and the Americans. When a nation with its only working military power to dominate the world and tries to use its military power to decide what is wrong and what is right, to use its formidable weaponry to manipulate the wind direction against China, then it just so inevitably becomes what the doomed Roman Empire to fool itself and its people with the last hurrah. Now we have blindly put a crazy man into the White House, a guy almost as similar as the crazy guy who led the Nazi Germany into oblivion and total destruction, with the same old tricks of accusations, finger-pointing insults to almost everyone who's not see eye to eye with him. A guy who administrates the government and the nation with his iPhone Twitter, while allowing his daughter to represent him as the royal princess to visit foreign countries and in the meantime, to promote her own commercial territories. Just within 2 years after this guy's inauguration, the fortune and the wealth of her and her husband have increased another $82 million dollars. While making her profit by contracting or subcontracting the Chinese factories to churn out her products, her father is claiming the trade war with China, and conspiring a war with China. There's no logic whatsoever to what he is doing now. The trade war against China would never has any impact to him, his Party, those morons in the Senate and the Congress, but would put the 99% ordinary Americans into a more difficult living condition. I am quite sure that the most popular chain store in Ameirca, the 99Cents Stores, would never survive since most of their goods from China are either @ or under $1.00 since the general goods, the must-have and the must-use products, after a 25% import tax hike, would become impossible to remain unchanged. And we, the common people are doomed.

    When you use the same ideology patriotism to fool most of the naive Americans, you are no different from the Chinese Communist Party leader, and your Party is no better than your targeted enemy's Party. America, under the blind guidance of a crazy captain, has undoubtedly become a Ship of Fools.
    8lvkuang

    The other side of the story

    The movie started with the Bikini islands, which is a foreign island FAR from the US mainland annexed by the States for military and human laboratory purposes. China is indeed making a move on the disputed area of the South China Sea. While I am not defending the absurdity of this action, it is hypocritical of the US to criticize China while itself is spreading its military influence all over the world for it's economical and political purposes. The movie is rather unbiased because it also exposes the social inequality of China as a result of the economic reforms. Both countries have their problems, but this movie gives an insight to the viewers for the reasons we wouldn't see from the western media: Being demonized by the western mainstream propaganda, China has no choice but to react to the suppression of the States or it will meet the same fate as the Bikini islands or the Okinawa island.
    10onetree-280-291441

    A plain and thorough conducted researched documentary

    The US government has been conducting covert operations since WW I. And probably many other nations do that same thing. The world is sadly so indoctrinated with false information and the media and the school systems are so controlled that the truth does not reach the people. Therefor I am glad John Pilger made this film and showed not only evidence of those covert actions by the US government but also the heroic and relentless effort that other so called ordinary people make to expose and oppose these actions. This movie is made in deep honor of all those who have been railroaded And even killed by these actions of a nation that has grown to have become the largest psychotic, delusional, megalomaniacal force in this world. Sadly again many of its inhabitants as well as people from other nations are indoctrinated because of false information and lack of true information and will hold on to that this film as well as many other proof belongs in the category of conspiracy theories. The only thing someone has to do to get to the truth is rid oneself of all prejudices and look at the information with an open mind. Take that challenge and watch this movie and see for yourself. Only the truth will set you free.

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      The film ends with the credit: «And with special thanks to our 1,119 individual crowd-funders» which are individually named in three columns of small print.
    • Connections
      Featured in Good Morning Britain: Episode dated 6 December 2016 (2016)
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      Composed and performed by musicians of the Marshall Islands

      Published by Saydisc Records

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    • Release date
      • December 5, 2016 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
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    • Languages
      • English
      • Japanese
      • Korean
      • Marshallese
    • Also known as
      • The Coming War On China
    • Filming locations
      • Marshall Islands(Airview of the Bikini Islands)
    • Production companies
      • Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)
      • The Bertha Foundation
      • The Reva and David Logan Foundation
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      • 1h 53m(113 min)
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