Spotlight: Australian journalist's documentary refutes "China threat"

An Australian journalist's documentary aired recently refuted the claim of "China threat" that has been played up by the United States, noting it is China itself that is under threat.

"American bases from a giant noose encircling China with missiles, bombers, warships and the way from Australia through the Pacific to Asia and beyond," said the documentary made by Britain-based Australian journalist John Pilger.

In his documentary entitled "The Coming War on China" aired over the weekend by Russia Today (RT) television network's documentary channel RTD, Pilger set out several remarkable historic facts which bear testament to America's "Sabre-rattling" in the Asia-Pacific region, according to the RT.

"If you were in Beijing and stood on the tallest building and looked out at the Pacific Ocean, you would see American warships, you would see Guam is about to sink because there are so many missiles pointed at China," James Bradley, one of the film's contributors, put in it.

The United States declares that the rise of China as an economic power is an "existential threat" to "the divine right of the United States to rule and dominate human rights," Pilger said in an article posted on the Counterpunch website on Dec. 2.

"The greatest build-up of American-led military forces since the Second World War is well under way. They are in the northern hemisphere, on the western borders of Russia, and in Asia and the Pacific, confronting China," Pilger said.

"In 2014, under the rubric of 'information dominance' - the jargon for media manipulation, or fake news, on which the Pentagon spends more than 4 billion U.S. dollars, the (Barack) Obama administration launched a propaganda campaign that cast China ...as a threat to 'freedom of navigation'," he said in the article.

Pilger's film also suggests that a "stereotype" of China is widely spread by the United States, preventing people from understanding "China as it is."

Pilger reveals in his film that, as the world's economic power moves rapidly towards Asia, the response of the United States is to deploy the majority of its naval forces to the region, according to RT.

"This massive military build-up is known in Washington as the pivot to Asia. The target is China," he noted.

"For America's unchallenged arms industry, the annual prize is huge profits from almost 600 billion U.S. dollars of military spending," Pilger suggested.

Meanwhile, Pilger said that the large-scale U.S. military build-up under the pretext of "China threat" does "molest" innocent local residents where the build-up is located.

In Japan's island of Okinawa, where there are 32 military installations, mainly targeted at China, local residents are strongly against the U.S. military presence there, he said.

One more outstanding "U.S. war station" is located on the South Korean island of Jeju, where a resistance movement has also been persistent against America's naval base, the multi-award winning journalist and filmmaker said.

There are also numerous secret bases constructed by the United States within a hosting country base to disguise the U.S. presence, with such locations generally not referred to as "bases", according to Pilger's film.

Pilger said that he had spent two years making the documentary film, aiming to "break the silence." Endi