{"id":28647,"date":"2020-10-11T21:47:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T01:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=28647"},"modified":"2020-10-11T21:52:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T01:52:26","slug":"the-coming-war-on-china-john-pilger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2020\/10\/11\/the-coming-war-on-china-john-pilger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coming War on China (John Pilger)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>YouTube <\/em>has the video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GDl9ecICIYg&#038;app=desktop\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Coming War on China (John Pilger) | Full Documentary | Reel Truth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe Coming War on China, from award winning journalist John Pilger, reveals what the news doesn\u2019t \u2013 that the world\u2019s greatest military power, the United States, and the world\u2019s second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, may well be on the road to war.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/GDl9ecICIYg\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>There actually is some semblance of balance in this movie.  The picture of China that John Pilger presents is not as blindly rosy as depicted by Eric X. Li in his TED talk presented earlier, <a href=\"PoliticsBlog\/2020\/10\/11\/eric-x-li-a-tale-of-two-political-systems\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Eric X. Li: A tale of two political systems<\/a>.  I am still concerned for the Chinese people that there are so many billionaires in China.  They are allowing one of the worst examples presented by USA capitalism.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if Chinese billionaires are as steeped in Finance Capitalism as USA billionaires are. Their  power may not be the same as billionaires in the USA, but I still see a  danger to it.  Apparently other people in China see that danger, too. I fear that Eric X. Li has about the same understanding of the lives of ordinary people in China as our billionaires, like Jeff Bezos, understand the lives of ordinary people in the USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has the video The Coming War on China (John Pilger) | Full Documentary | Reel Truth. The Coming War on China, from award winning journalist John Pilger, reveals what the news doesn\u2019t \u2013 that the world\u2019s greatest military power, the United States, and the world\u2019s second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, may well be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28647"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28650,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28647\/revisions\/28650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}