Investigative Journalist, John Pilger: US Preparation for Conflict - China on High Alert

HIGH ALERT: CHINA Response to US Aggresssion John Pilger on the Threat of World War Three (Going Underground) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahEdcuxlN1o SUMMARY (BASIC) John Pilger on the Threat of World War Three (Going Underground) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahEdcuxlN1o AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES Classically America-first populist in  Donald Trump or the absolute embodiment of the system that has run seamlessly since 1945 (Hillary Clinton) Sanders - voted to destroy Yugoslavia - voted to put Edward Snowden on trial - called Hugo Chávez (Venezuela) a dictator Pilger: Let's get the quote exactly right.  He was asked about Chávez and he called Chávez a "dead communist dictator" Pilger: I don't think there's anything in Senator Sanders' foreign policy that offers any encouragement to any of us. [...] Sanders has offered health care to the only developed country that doesn't have a proper healthcare system. He wants to do something about the barons of Wall Street.  Good luck.  He's not going to be president. Pilger US is in a frenzy of preparation for a conflict of some kind. Conflict of some kind can lead to war of the real kind, against: China & against Russia, on two fronts RUSSIA Greatest (US-led) build-up of forces since WWII has happened in Eastern Europe and in the Baltic States. US expansion & military preparation HAS NOT BEEN REPORTED IN THE WEST UKRAINE Since the US paid for for & controlled US coup in that country Ukraine has become an American preserve CIA Theme Park - CIA are all over it - special forces are all over it - American business is all over it - Joe Biden's son is appointed to various Ukraine fracking companies Full American interest has gone to a country that is Russia's borderland through which the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in the early 1940s with the cost of something like 27 million lives Imagine the equivalent in the US:  the border with Mexico, the border with Canada Refers to Russia's cuban situated missiles which almost resulted in WWIII The USA, which constitutionally has the freest media in the world, these war preparations against Russia and against China HAVE NOT BEEN MENTIONED. When China is mentioned, it's about China's 'aggressive moves' in the South China Sea. It's interesting how the public is being primed to accept so-called 'aggressive' moves by China WHEN, IN FACT, THEY'RE CLEARLY DEFENSIVE MOVES USA MILITARY BASES THREAT The United States has something like 400 major bases encircling China, starting in Australia, going through Asia, Japan & Korea Looking at Shanghai is Okinawa, which has 32 American military installations Japan has 130 in all Okinawa is about the size of Long Island Imagine Long Island as a Chinese base, looking straight at New York; that's the equivalent Reporter Do you think multinational corporations and Wall Street would allow -- they haven't allowed a full-scale war from President Obama against Beijing and surely ... Pilger: I don't know.  ... China is America's first trading partner.  It is a trading partner. Most of the things that Americans wear are made in China.  ... China has almost replaced Japan in that sense:  the great manufacturing centre of the world. America has this close business relationship with China.  I don't know, is the answer to that. ... What I think is interesting and dangerous, and I don't think it's been recognised is the ascendency of military thinking -- the Pentagon in Washington.  Recently, the State Dept. broke its silence on this and said to the Defence Dept:  let us handle the diplomacy, let us handle the relations with countries, you do the military side of things (paraphrasing) ... an extraordinary outburst coming from an official in the state department, where there is great frustration about this ubiquitous power now of the military, and this seems to be embodied in this Defence Secretary Ashton Carter, who seems to go from conference to conference -- G7; now he's gone to Singapore threatening countries. TRUMP Trump has said he doesn't want to go to war with China or with Russia. Trump wonders why America is all over the world.  He wonders about the power of NATO. This is 'heresy'. (As at 4 June 2016) - US has sent guided missile ships in last two weeks into disputed zone in South China Sea For the first time Chinese fighter jets were scrambled; a week or so later, an American spy plane was intercepted by planes. So many wars begin accidentally, or by mistake. We had one of America's leading and most interesting generals, James Cartwright, talk about this recently. DANGER OF PREEMPTIVE NUCLEAR STRIKES James Cartwright talked about the 'hair trigger system', which now gives the leaders of the country (ie USA), really minutes, in which to decide whether they will launch a pre-emptive nuclear attack or whether they will respond to a pre-emptive nuclear attack. ... at a conference in Virginia, former U.S. Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. James Cartwright acknowledged that "there's the potential that you could, in fact, generate a scenario where, in a bolt from the blue, we launch a pre-emptive attack and then use missile defense to weed out" Russia's remaining missiles launched in response. "We're going to have to think our way out of this," he said. "We're going to have to figure out how we're going to do this." [2013 Source] HAIR-TRIGGER ALERT  roots in Cold War http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-weapons/hair-trigger-alert CHINA - ON HIGH ALERT One of the most worrying aspects is that China clearly has taken on-board that CHINA IS BEING SERIOUSLY THREATENED. Up to now China has kept it's nuclear weapons have been kept on low alert:  that is, the weapon and the warhead have been kept separately.  Whereas, the US and Russia have always kept their nuclear weapons on high alert.  The literature that's available now suggests that China is on NUCLEAR HIGH ALERT. Just last week (circa 4 June 2016), Chinese submarines armed with nuclear weapons went on patrol in the Pacific for the first time. NONE OF THIS IS EVEN MENTIONED IN THE AMERICAN ELECTION CAMPAIGN