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The Coming War on China (12A) + Q&A

Part of: Global Health Film Festival 2017

Global Health Film Festival 2017: The Coming War on China

John Pilger’s 60th film and first since 2013’s Utopia is his most urgent work to date and is both a warning and an inspiring story of resistance

A nuclear war between the United States and China is not only imaginable but a current ‘contingency’, says the Pentagon.

The Coming War on China, filmed over two years across five potential flashpoints in Asia and the Pacific, reveals the build-up to war on more than 400 US military bases that encircle China in a ‘perfect noose’. Using rare archive and remarkable interviews with witnesses, Pilger’s film discloses America’s secret history in the region – the destruction wrought by the equivalent of one Hiroshima every day for 12 years, and the top secret ‘Project 4.1’ that made guinea pigs of the population of the Marshall Islands. 

In key interviews from Pentagon war planners to members of China’s confident new political class - who rarely feature in Western reports, Pilger’s film challenges the notion and propaganda of China as a new ‘enemy’.
 

UK 2016 Dir John Pilger 113 min

Barbican Cinema 1

Location
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