"John Pilger has made yet another enthralling film. We may be part of its last audience."
By Martin Billheimer
Acclaimed journalist and human rights firebrand John Pilger stares down those who would defend America's ongoing military presence in the Pacific at significant cost to the indigenous population. His expose of the atrocities still being committed there is just part of this far-reaching documentary about the relationship between the US and China since World War II, in light of recent inflammatory statements made by President Trump. Here are stories apparently left untold by the mainstream news media – fake or otherwise.
"The Coming War on China: John Pilger asks is Beijing really the enemy?"
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"If China dukes it out with the US, Australia will be a target"
By Stephen A Russell
“His take on American militarism and its shocking exploitation of Pacific territories such as the Marshall Islands…. is damning.”
By Craig Mathieson
“The great lunacy of [what Pilger's film reveals] is that the brinkmanship is driven not by America's defensive needs but by the hunt for profits.”
By Karl Quinn
“This documentary sheds some hope, even if the reality we face could very well be doomed. Pilger is a prevailing light of truth and shows that light exactly.”
By Louise Agostino
"John Pilger is the reason I am a journalist, for which I owe him deep gratitude"
By Stephen Romei
"A persuasively partisan example of old-school investigative journalism."
"From Taiwan telephone tete-a-tete to pre-Christmas game of drones, President-elect @realDonaldTrump is inadvertently doing his darnedest to endow John Pilger's eye-opening polemic The Coming War on China with an air of chillingly urgent topicality. The Australian-born journalist's 60th film for U.K. broadcaster ITV is his fourth to be made with cinema exposure in mind — it screened to strong receptions in British theaters the day before its similarly well-received late-evening network bow."
By Neil Young
"it was a sane, sober, necessary, deeply troubling bucketful of worries"
By Euan Ferguson
"Pilger’s film shows humanity at the edge of a precipice. But it also shows us that we can step back from the brink."
By Ben Chacko
"Britain will send fighter jets & aircraft carriers to South China Sea"
"A gripping film ... a strong corrective to our bland and complacent indifference"
By Peter Bradshaw
"(Pilger) remains in the vanguard of journalism, able to eloquently challenge accepted beliefs and in doing so shine a light in corners you suspect other media, who sup from the same trough as those in power, would rather not venture."
Interview with John Pilger by Maki Sunagawa and Daniel Broudy