🇺🇸Review - The coming war on China: dir. John Pilger🏝

It is disappointing that this movie doesn't work. It was almost a good movie about how American imperialism has, and is continuing to, damage small-island communities in Asian and the Pacific. But instead the film tries limply to make the argument about US aggression against China by spending it's time focusing on the wrong evidence. 

The film is Made after the victory of Donald Trump and touches on the increased likelihood that his victory has meant for war. But here the proportion is all wrong; while spending Forty minutes about nuclear testing during the Cold War, the film only briefly mentions the Donald. No mention is made of, for example, the Lunatic Michael Flynn who had seemed to believe China has worked with Al Qaeda and Isis. (Unless Pilger somehow had predicted Flynn's rapid fall and knows that he would be gone for good.)  

While parts of this film elsewhere could have been good, a bizarrely sycophantic section in the centre of the film focuses on modern China. This brief section of the film parrots the mainstream Chinese media line. While a film about US aggression does not need to explore every abuse and atrocity that China has been involved in, The Coming War on China engages in full-blown red-washing. That is unforgivable.