>  American arms stockpiles are dwindling as Washington attempts to transfer Kiev enough military equipment to keep its army fighting. The US additionally has plans to significantly increase arms transfers to Taiwan.

https://news.antiwar.com/2023/06/02/blinken-dismisses-calls-for-a-ceasefire-says-us-must-build-up-ukraines-military/

  #Ukraine #Taiwan #ComingWarOnChina #ArmsStockpiles #KyleAnzalone

> 44% of the world’s oceans are experiencing a marine heatwave.

> since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the US has put more carbon into the atmosphere, by far, than any other country. While the new technologies sustained by fossil fuels improved our standard of living, we laid the groundwork for the climate calamity the planet is now experiencing.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/21/us-bernie-sanders-china-climate-change-cooperation
#BernieSanders #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #China #TheUSA #NewColdWar #ComingWarOnChina
/HT #DavidSwanson

> Vijay Prashad, director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, says the “bellicose” tone out of Washington is not because the U.S. sees China as a military threat, but because China threatens U.S. dominance in the scientific, technological and diplomatic spheres. “It’s very chilling what the U.S. government is doing in ramping up this cold war,” says #Prashad.
https://www.democracynow.org/2021/3/16/vijay_prashad_us_china_rivalry
#VijayPrashad #ComingWarOnChina #ColdWar #USA #China #NearPeer

> The United States government has not signed the international laws of the seas, and yet it prosecutes so-called freedom of navigation missions against not only #China in the #SouthChinaSea, using this U.N. Charter, which it’s not a signatory of, but it has been provoking clashes with #Russia in the #BlackSea, in the #BalticSea and in the #ArcticSea, again, using these so-called #FreedomOfNavigation missions.
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/4/15/vijay_prashad_russia_ukraine_global_south
#VijayPrashad #InternationalLaw #ComingWarOnChina #USA

> In 1949, China declared independence, an event known in Western discourse as “the #LossOfChina” — in the U.S., with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss. The terminology is revealing. It is only possible to lose something that one owns. The tacit assumption was that the #USA owned #China, by right, along with most of
the rest of the world
https://chomsky.info/20120214/
#JohnPilger's #ComingWarOnChina #documentary made me think of these lines by #NoamChomsky

> .. a US captain.. questioned..that he'd been given an order to fire a missile at China when..the crew was watching on television the Cuban Missile Crisis..it had..nothing to do with #China. So he ordered several of his crew to go to another launch pad..draw their 45s and tell them to stop..
https://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2016/12/transcript-john-pilger-coming-war-china-9-december-16
#MaceMissiles in #Okinawa #JohnPilger #NoNukes #ComingWarOnChina

> There has been quite a bit of news both in the US and over here about #China building air strips in the #SpratlyIslands in the #SouthChinaSea and almost nothing about the fact that the #USA has surrounded China with some four hundred military bases that stretch all the way from #Australia through the Pacific up through #Asia, #Korea, #Japan and across #Eurasia.
https://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2016/12/transcript-john-pilger-coming-war-china-9-december-16
#JohnPilger and #ThomHartmann on #ComingWarOnChina #China #BaseNation #DavidVine

>... the #Korean island of Jeju, a semi-tropical sanctuary and World Heritage Site declared ‘an island of world peace’. On this island..has been built one of the most provocative military bases..less than 400 miles from #Shanghai..#Gangjeong is dominated by a #SouthKorean naval base purpose-built for #USA aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines and destroyers..with the Aegis missile system, aimed at #China.
https://newint.org/features/2016/12/01/the-coming-war-on-china/
more #Geography from #JohnPilger #documentary #ComingWarOnChina

We may be lucky enough not to have nuclear weapons make us extinct as the Russia Ukraine war goes on. So why not start thinking about how to avoid the next war that would risk nuclear annihilation involving the #USA... I started watching #JohnPilger's #ComingWarOnChina a feel bad about the #MarshallIslands #NuclearBombs #NuclearTesting and #Contamination by #Radiation in the #BikinAtoll