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♪ Oh say, can you see ♪
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♪ By the dawn's early light, ♪
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♪ What so proudly we hailed ♪
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♪ At the twilight's last gleaming ♪
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♪ Whose broad stripes and bright stars, ♪
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♪ Through the perilous fight ♪
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♪ Over the ramparts we watched, ♪
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♪ Were so gallantly streaming. ♪
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♪ And the rockets red glare, ♪
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♪ The bombs bursting in air, ♪
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♪ Gave proof through the night ♪
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♪ That our flag was still there. ♪
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♪ Oh, say, does-- ♪
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- I pity a country that
would come up against us.
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The synergy with air, land, and sea forces
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and our ability to
control the battle space
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and seize the high ground is devastating.
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All countries respect the
power of the United States
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and they respect how dominant
we are in this region.
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And we get better and better and better.
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(drums pounding)
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- Tonight to ten,
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a rare glimpse of China's
ambitious expansion
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in one of the world's
most contested regions.
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We report from the South China Sea,
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where the Chinese are warning off anyone
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who comes too close to
their building program.
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- We continue our look this morning
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at what China does not want you to see.
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The United States says the superpower
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is reclaiming land in the South China Sea.
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- The fact that we're dealing
with a situation right now
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where we, the US, has to
be much more aggressive
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in dealing with the Chinese government.
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- CNN has learned that the US Navy
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is about to send a destroyer there.
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Let's go to our CNN chief--
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- [Announcer] CNN got
exclusive access to classified
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US surveillance flights over the islands.
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- [John Narrating] The threat
of China is becoming big news.
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The media is beating the drums of war
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as the world is being
primed to regard China
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as a new enemy.
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- [Announcer] China's alarming creation of
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entirely new territory
in the South China Sea
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is one part of a broader military push
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that some fear is to challenge
US dominance in the region.
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- [John Narrating] China
is building airstrips
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in the South China Sea on disputed islands
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condemned by an international tribunal.
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This is now a flashpoint for war
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between China and America.
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What is not news is that
China itself is under threat.
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These American bases form a giant noose,
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encircling China with
missiles, bombers, warships.
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All the way from Australia
through the Pacific,
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to Asia, and beyond.
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- If you were in Beijing looking out,
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you stood on the tallest
building in Beijing
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and looked out at the Pacific Ocean,
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you'd see American warships.
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You'd see Guam is about to sink
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because there's so many
missiles pointed at China.
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You'd look up at Korea and see
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American armaments pointing at China.
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You'd see Japan, which is basically,
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Japan's a glove over the American fist.
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I think if I was Chinese, I'd
have a little to worry about
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about American aggressiveness.
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- And we have China surrounded
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and we're doing more
all the time to try and
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keep it surrounded and deepen
that containment of China.
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But China presents a fascinating case
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of a country that is independent,
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doesn't have foreign
bases on its territory,
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growing very rapidly,
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not as rapidly now as it did for 30 years,
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but still the second-ranking
economy in the world.
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- We have an adversary
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and that adversary is
China and that adversary,
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unless there is dramatic
reform inside China,
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will be our enemy someday.
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- One myth I think really
needs to be dispelled
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is that somehow China's
aiming to replace America
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and gonna run the world. (laughs)
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First of all, the Chinese
are not that stupid.
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The West, with its Christian roots,
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are about converting other
people into their beliefs.
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The Chinese are not about that.
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Again, I'm not degrading
the Western culture.
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I'm just pointing out the inherent nature,
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the DNA's of two different cultures.
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The Chinese 2000 years
ago built the Great Wall
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to keep the barbarians
out, not to invade them.
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- [John Narrating] As the
world's economic power
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moves rapidly to Asia, the
response of the Untied States
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is to deploy the majority
of its naval forces to Asia
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and the Pacific.
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This massive military buildup
is known in Washington as
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the "Pivot to Asia."
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The target is China.
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The great power game in the 21st century
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is called perpetual war.
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For America's unchallenged arms industry,
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the annual prize is huge profits
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from almost 600 billion
dollars of military spending.
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- [Announcer] Once an
imaginary weapon on Star Wars,
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the electromagnetic gun is now reality.
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- You're sitting here thinking about these
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next-generation and futuristic ideas
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and we've got scientists
who have designed these
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and it's coming to life.
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- [John Narrating] And the
smartest weapons need enemies.
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- As a Pacific nation, the United States
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will play a larger and long-term role
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in shaping this region and its future.
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I have directed my national security team
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to make our presence and
mission in the Asian-Pacific
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a top priority.
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- In one sense, is the US
already at war with China?
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- Yes.
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On the ground and in the air.
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The winner of the Nobel Peace
Prize, President Barack Obama,
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has committed to trillions
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of dollars to our nuclear arsenal.
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He's committing trillions
of future dollars
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to war in space and we need
an enemy for all this money
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and China's the perfect enemy.
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- The aim of this film
is to break a silence.
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The United States and China
may well be on a path to war
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and nuclear war is no longer unthinkable.
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In a few years, China
has become the world's
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second biggest economic power.
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The United States is the
world's biggest military power,
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with bases and missiles and ships
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covering every continent, every ocean.
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China is a threat to this
dominance, says Washington,
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but who is the threat?
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This film is about shifting
power and great danger.
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It's also a film about the human spirit
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and the rise of an extraordinary
resistance among people
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on the front line of a coming war
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where the words "never
again" have an urgent meaning
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for all of us.
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(somber music)
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- [John Narrating] This is Bikini,
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the rim of an ancient underwater volcano
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in the Marshall Islands.
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With its necklace of 23 islands,
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Bikini is a place of beauty
and silence and menace.
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Look closely where the Emerald Lagoon
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suddenly falls into a vast black hole.
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This is the crater of one of
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the greatest manmade explosions,
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the hydrogen bomb they call Bravo.
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It vaporized an entire island
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and poisoned almost
everything and everyone.
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As our plane flew low, we seemed
to touch its deathly void.
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The Marshall Islands lie
in the vast Pacific Ocean
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between the United States and Asia.
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Captured from the
Japanese in World War Two,
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they've long been
America's strategic secret,
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it's stepping stone to Asia and China.
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(guitar music)
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People here sustain themselves
for thousands of years
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with abundant fish,
breadfruit, and coconuts.
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They were skilled navigators
who sailed by the stars.
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Westerners might call this paradise.
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All that changed in 1946
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when the United States took
over the Marshall Islands
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as a Trust Territory with an obligation
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to protect the health and
wellbeing of the people.
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A nightmare began.
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The islands were turned into a laboratory
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for the testing of nuclear weapons
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and the people into guinea pigs.
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- Crossroads, scene 24, take two.
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(clicks)
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- [John Narrating] In
this propaganda film,
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the Bikini islanders are being deceived.
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Unknown to them, plans
were already underway
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to destroy their paradise forever.
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- Will you ask King Judah that
the United States government
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now wants to attempt to turn this great,
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destructive force into
something good for mankind
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and that these experiments here at Bikini
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are the first step in that direction.
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(speaks foreign language)
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Tell them that's fine,
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everything being in God's
hands, it must be good.
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(speaks foreign language)
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- [Announcer] 87 ships
take position three miles
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off Bikini to suffer the shattering impact
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of the fifth atomic bomb.
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- [John Narrating] An armada of warships
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was assembled in Bikini Lagoon
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in order to blow them to bits.
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(chain clanking)
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- [Announcer] The decks
of the 73 test ships
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anchored in Bikini Lagoon
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are scenes of feverish activity
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as scientists plot experimental programs
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designed to furnish data on blast effects
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of the mighty atom bomb.
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Animals of many kinds--
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- [John Narrating] Animals
were strapped to the decks
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like a perverse Noah's Ark.
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The experiment was to see how they died,
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how they burned.
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- [Announcer] Special
ointments are applied
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to determine their protective quality.
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Other parts of the exposed areas
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are being left bare to the atom blasts.
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- [Soldier] Three, two, one.
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(eerie music)
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- [John Narrating] Being on Bikini today
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is disturbing ghosts.
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I struggle through the
jungle to the bunker
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where they pressed the
button at 6:45 on the morning
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of the H-Bomb test.
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Now claimed by the undergrowth,
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it's like a subterranean
temple to modern times.
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They drank Milk Maid Powdered Milk,
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smoked Lucky Strike Cigarettes,
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and later this sign was
erected that's beyond irony.
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It says,
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"Please leave this
property as you find it,
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"thank you for your
kindness and understanding."
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(water drips)
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(jovial music)
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- [Announcer] The Momselles
give their all for their art
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and you can just bet
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that audience is giving
with the wolf calls.
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- [Male Announcer] The bikini, named after
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the atomic explosion in the Pacific.
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The bikini was an explosion everywhere.
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- [John Narrating] In 1946, the
bikini swimsuit was launched
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to celebrate the nuclear explosions
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that had destroyed life on Bikini Island.
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The inventor of the bikini, a Frenchman,
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made his fortune.
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Today a bikini body is
promoted in magazines
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as an object of desire and good health.
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The bodies of the people
of Bikini and other islands
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are the most irradiated in the world.
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All these women have had thyroid cancer.
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Today, Bikini is unfit for human life.
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Radiation poisons the food and water,
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and issues registered
unsafe on a Geiger Counter.
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The abandoned cemetery looks out to where
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the sun rose one morning, then rose again
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as apocalypse.
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The equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb
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was exploded in these islands
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everyday for 12 years.
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A scarred beauty has
returned to the island
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but the people haven't.
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Exiled to barren islands,
many of them starved.
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In 1968, President
Lyndon Johnson told them
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it was safe to go home.
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(Geiger Counter clicks)
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But it wasn't safe.
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And the US authorities
knew it wasn't safe.
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- What happened as a
result of the Bravo test
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was that a cover-up was launched
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very shortly after March one.
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There's such a history
of wrong information,
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outright lies, deception.
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There was no attempt to take
the most conservative approach
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and make sure that everybody was okay.
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- They knew the way the
fallout was going to go.
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And they took that risk and went ahead
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and detonated the bomb, knowing full well
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which way it was going to go.
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They still had an opportunity to evacuate,
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even on the day of the shot.
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But these people were not evacuated,
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we were not evacuated,
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and the people in the
path were not evacuated.
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So that only leaves one to believe that
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number one, the United States
needed some guinea pigs
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to study what the effects
of radiation would do.
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And that's a pretty strong indication
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that the United States knew that.
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- It seems extraordinary, here we are,
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this far into the 21st century,
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talking to people still frightened
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of all that nuclear
fallout, all those tests,
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all those years ago.
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The impression I get is that
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there's so little trust among people.
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- The US is trying to provide as much
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information, as much good
information as we can.
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And so I wouldn't accept
the characterization that
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there've been lies and cover-ups.
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- The word guinea pigs comes
up a lot from these survivors.
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- I would refer you to our
embassy website on that.
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- I've read it.
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- And that question was looked at
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during the Clinton administration
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and that was not the
conclusion they came to.
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- [John Narrating] The secret
of the Marshall Islands
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is Project 4.1.
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Declassified documents
reveal a scientific program
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that began as a study of mice
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and became a study of human
beings exposed to radiation.
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- [Radio Announcer] Chicago
is where it all began.
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And to the AEC Argonnne
Labs in Chicago last week
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came seven men, natives
of the Marshall Islands.
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Levin is from Omelek.
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He and the rest were irradiated by our
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March 19th '54 hydrogen bomb test.
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John is mayor of Rongelap,
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which is 100 miles from Bikini.
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John, as we said, is a savage,
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but a happy, amenable savage.
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His grandfather ran almost
naked on his small atoll.
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The white man brought money and religion
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and a market for his copa.
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John Reeds knows about God
and is a pretty good mayor.
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The iron room is a radiation
detector for human beings.
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Inside John the mayor,
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whose first visit to
the white man's country
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meant San Francisco cable
cars and Chicago skyscrapers
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and streamlined trains,
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whose first visit to
the white man's country
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meant the iron room.
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A savage governs his life by ritual
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and he understands this because
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he thinks of it as a new ritual.
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Sitting alone inside the room,
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outside, a strange kind of
priest in a long, white coat.
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When the ritual of the iron
room was over for John,
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it began for the others.
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As each finished, he was told it was over
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and he was given apples and
other good things to eat.
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Then he took off the ritual clothing
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and the seven men put on
the suits and top coats
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they had been lent in Hawaii
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which they would return in
Hawaii on their way back
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in the Marshall Islands in the
middle of the Pacific Ocean.
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- The United States government documents
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clearly demonstrate that its scientists
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conducted human radiation experiments
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with Marshallese citizens.
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Some of our people were injected with
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or coerced to drink fluids
laced with radiation.
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Other experimentation
involved the impurposeful
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and premature resettlement of people
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on islands highly
contaminated by weapons tests
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to study how human beings absorb radiation
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from their foods and environment.
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(guitar music)
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- [John Narrating] These
people are guinea pigs.
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They are part of the
experiment Project 4.1.
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They're being returned to Rongelap,
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an island 100 miles from
Bikini by the US Navy.
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They were told repeatedly,
it was safe to go home.
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This happy couple believed
they were going home to safety.
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The man is John Anjain,
the mayor of Rongelap.
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The "happy savage" from
the iron room in Chicago.
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His wife is Madura, and this
is their baby son Lekage.
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They had no idea of the
horror that lay ahead.
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They are being returned to an island
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described by a US atomic energy official
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"as by far the most
contaminated place on earth."
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He added, "it will be
interesting to get a measure
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"of human uptake when people
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"live in a contaminated environment."
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The people of Rongelap
remained on their poison island
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for 28 years as guinea pigs.
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The objects of regular,
scientific examination.
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(bell rings)
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The islanders pleaded
with the US authorities
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to move them to safety as evidence emerged
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of the second generation,
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the children were also poisoned.
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Desperate to leave, the islanders
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called on Greenpeace to rescue them.
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This ship, the Rainbow Warrior,
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moved the entire population
to an uncontaminated island.
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They called it Operation Exodus.
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(native music)
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(eerie music)
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This is Doctor Robert Conard,
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a leading medical scientist
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of Brookhaven National Laboratories.
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Conard devoted his distinguished career
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to examining the islanders.
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He wrote, "the habitation of
these people on the island
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"will afford the most valuable
ecological radiation data
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"on human beings.
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"The various radio isotopes present
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"can be traced from the
soil to the food chain
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"and into human beings."
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Doctor Conard gained the
trust of whole communities
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when he brought the islanders
to New York to be examined,
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he showed them the sights
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and had them over for a barbecue.
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When John Anjain's son
Lekage died aged 18,
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Doctor Conard sent the
man they called a savage
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a sympathy card.
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From your friend, Bob.
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In 1957, Madura Anjain was
the smiling young woman
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seen here on her way back to Rongelap,
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unaware of the danger
she and her family faced.
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This is Madura 28 years later,
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grieving the death of her son
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Lekage from radiation poisoning.
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Like her son and her husband,
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Madura died from a virulent cancer.
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- I don't see any great
clinics that have been
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established by, if not
the Department of Energy,
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certainly not by the US government.
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- There's a clinic downtown in Majuro.
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There's also a Whole Body Counter.
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You can have the plutonium in
your body measured as well.
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Anyone can, for free.
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- [John Narrating] This is
the plutonium measuring shop
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where they'll tell you
how radioactive you are.
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People waiting to be tested
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are welcomed with a video
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showing their islands being blown up.
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And this reassuring commentary.
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(speaks foreign language)
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This is Rinok, a refugee from
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the poisoned island of Rongelap,
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whose family owned land and
lived a secure, prosperous life.
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Now she lives in a shack
in the capital, Majuro,
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with her children and grandchildren.
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She has no water, no sanitation.
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- [John] And power, she has electricity?
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- [John Narrating] In
1986, the United States
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granted limited independence
to the Marshall Islanders
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on condition that they accepted a mere
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150 million dollars compensation
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for the damage caused by nuclear testing.
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A claims tribunal was set up
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and soon ran out of money
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and appealed to the US Congress
more than a decade ago,
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still awaits a reply.
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Darlene Keju-Johnson was
a young health worker
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who became the champion of her people
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after she discovered the full
extent of their suffering
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caused by nuclear testing that
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many more islands were poisoned
than the Americans claimed.
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(applause)
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This remarkable speech in
1983 broke the silence.
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- I bring greetings from
the Marshall Islands
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and throughout Micronesia.
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We have hundreds of women
who have miscarriages.
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We have leukemia cancers.
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We have thyroid cancers.
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We have stillborn babies.
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We have nowadays, I
just got back from home
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and I've talked to many women
and men in the population,
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is that we have babies
we call jellyfish babies.
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A baby is born on a labor table
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and it moves up and down like this.
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It's a colorful, ugly thing
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and it is not shaped like a human being.
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It moves up and down like
this on a labor table
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because that thing is breathing.
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That is a baby.
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- [John Narrating] In 1982,
Darlene married Giff Johnson,
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the author of this tribute to his wife.
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- Darlene was one of the liveliest,
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most entertaining individuals that
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I have ever had the pleasure of knowing.
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She was a voice for the voiceless.
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- [John Narrating] Like so
many Marshall Islanders,
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Darlene died of cancer, age 45.
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This is the largest of
the islands, Kwajalein,
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occupied by one of
America's most important
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and secretive bases.
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Known as the Ronald Reagan Test Site,
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it's a missile launch pad that commands
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the Pacific Ocean all the
way to Asia and China.
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(waves crash)
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Here, the people of the Marshall Islands
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are once again being
subjected to the testing
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of weapons of mass destruction
designed for a coming war.
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The base is part of a remarkable plan
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known as Vision 2020.
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Devised in the 1990's,
its aim is described
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officially as full-spectrum dominance.
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This means control of all land, sea, air,
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cyberspace, and space.
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- [Radio] Five, four, three, two, one,
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ignition.
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- [John Narrating] From
California, almost 5000 miles away,
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the US Air Force tests it's
intercontinental missiles
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by firing them at the Marshall Islands.
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- Imagine a missile coming
screaming out of the sky.
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It's absolutely terrifying.
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I think that there's really
nothing that I can imagine
497
00:35:04,905 --> 00:35:07,970
that would be more terrifying than this.
498
00:35:07,970 --> 00:35:11,607
And we're talking about devices that
499
00:35:11,607 --> 00:35:14,607
any one of them could go off course.
500
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:18,808
- [John Narrating] None of
this disturbs life on the base,
501
00:35:18,808 --> 00:35:22,576
where small town America
has been recreated,
502
00:35:22,576 --> 00:35:25,826
a wonderland of the suburban good life.
503
00:35:27,986 --> 00:35:28,986
- Thank you.
504
00:35:31,271 --> 00:35:33,488
(upbeat music)
505
00:35:33,488 --> 00:35:34,625
- Fabulous.
506
00:35:34,625 --> 00:35:37,754
There's nothing better than
living on a tropical island.
507
00:35:37,754 --> 00:35:40,282
- I pretty much have
beachfront property, you know?
508
00:35:40,282 --> 00:35:42,532
It's great, I love it here.
509
00:35:51,547 --> 00:35:55,122
- [John Narrating] Just across
the bay is Ebeye Island.
510
00:35:55,122 --> 00:35:57,533
Known as the slum of the Pacific,
511
00:35:57,533 --> 00:36:00,444
more than 12,000 people live here
512
00:36:00,444 --> 00:36:04,213
on a strip of land less than a mile long.
513
00:36:04,213 --> 00:36:08,631
Many of them refugees from
what is now the missile base
514
00:36:08,631 --> 00:36:12,381
and from islands poisoned
by nuclear testing.
515
00:36:16,209 --> 00:36:18,332
Every day, people from Ebeye are
516
00:36:18,332 --> 00:36:21,020
brought to work on the missile base
517
00:36:21,020 --> 00:36:24,353
to water the gardens and the golf course
518
00:36:27,054 --> 00:36:30,721
then they are ferried
back to their poverty.
519
00:36:33,482 --> 00:36:36,232
This is apartheid in the Pacific.
520
00:36:50,294 --> 00:36:52,711
(flies buzz)
521
00:37:00,995 --> 00:37:02,941
- Ebeye needs a lot of things.
522
00:37:02,941 --> 00:37:05,441
Medicine, education, and jobs.
523
00:37:06,298 --> 00:37:08,131
Vegetables and fruits.
524
00:37:09,073 --> 00:37:10,567
- Vegetables and fruits.
525
00:37:10,567 --> 00:37:11,400
- Yes.
526
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:13,341
- Here we are, it's a tropical island,
527
00:37:13,341 --> 00:37:14,652
and you need vegetables and fruits.
528
00:37:14,652 --> 00:37:15,485
- Yes.
529
00:37:17,813 --> 00:37:20,154
- [John Narrating] Fish,
vegetables and fruit
530
00:37:20,154 --> 00:37:22,487
were once abundant on Ebeye.
531
00:37:24,067 --> 00:37:28,441
Today, fish is contaminated
by toxic pollutants
532
00:37:28,441 --> 00:37:31,858
says the Environmental Protection Agency.
533
00:37:34,287 --> 00:37:37,277
Now the only food most people can afford
534
00:37:37,277 --> 00:37:40,128
is processed and imported.
535
00:37:40,128 --> 00:37:44,295
They have the highest rate
of diabetes in the world.
536
00:37:49,906 --> 00:37:52,851
- When someone gets really ill,
537
00:37:52,851 --> 00:37:55,082
do they go to the
hospital over on the base
538
00:37:55,082 --> 00:37:59,249
because they've got a pretty
modern clinic over there.
539
00:38:00,491 --> 00:38:03,658
- They don't treat them with medicine.
540
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:09,669
They just go there for taking
the plug and then x-ray.
541
00:38:09,669 --> 00:38:12,942
- So what happens when
somebody is seriously ill?
542
00:38:12,942 --> 00:38:15,472
- They cannot do anything.
543
00:38:15,472 --> 00:38:18,389
- The most consistent example given
544
00:38:19,762 --> 00:38:23,762
is the example of the
Ronald Reagan Missile Site
545
00:38:24,832 --> 00:38:27,228
and Ebeye next to it.
546
00:38:27,228 --> 00:38:29,718
On the Ronald Reagan Missile Site
547
00:38:29,718 --> 00:38:33,055
is a vivid example of the United States,
548
00:38:33,055 --> 00:38:35,638
golf courses and swimming pools
549
00:38:36,804 --> 00:38:39,054
and all kinds of amenities.
550
00:38:40,278 --> 00:38:44,320
Right next to it is what is
called the slum of the Pacific.
551
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:45,590
- It's a challenge.
552
00:38:45,590 --> 00:38:48,842
Ebeye is in great need right now.
553
00:38:48,842 --> 00:38:50,860
We've talked about infrastructure.
554
00:38:50,860 --> 00:38:53,543
One of the projects the US is working with
555
00:38:53,543 --> 00:38:57,068
our Australian colleagues and
with the Asia Development Bank
556
00:38:57,068 --> 00:39:00,355
is a sewer and water project
desperately needed for Ebeye.
557
00:39:00,355 --> 00:39:02,927
Ebeye's overcrowded,
the schools need repair.
558
00:39:02,927 --> 00:39:07,362
- Actually, the US military
did a survey back in the 70's
559
00:39:07,362 --> 00:39:09,201
and found that the sewers didn't work
560
00:39:09,201 --> 00:39:12,522
and the water didn't run and
the electricity wasn't there.
561
00:39:12,522 --> 00:39:14,173
It only happened not all that long ago
562
00:39:14,173 --> 00:39:16,464
they found almost exactly the same thing.
563
00:39:16,464 --> 00:39:18,794
Why hasn't that been fixed?
564
00:39:18,794 --> 00:39:21,859
- There's complete agreement
that Ebeye should be a priority
565
00:39:21,859 --> 00:39:24,462
and not only because of
the current activities
566
00:39:24,462 --> 00:39:27,810
of the Ronald Reagan Space
and Missile Defense Site,
567
00:39:27,810 --> 00:39:31,248
but there's also now
an additional component
568
00:39:31,248 --> 00:39:33,676
that is providing for global security
569
00:39:33,676 --> 00:39:38,070
and that's the Space Fence
Project by the Air Force.
570
00:39:38,070 --> 00:39:39,942
- [John Narrating] Every missile fired
571
00:39:39,942 --> 00:39:43,289
on the Marshall Islands by the US military
572
00:39:43,289 --> 00:39:45,872
costs 100 million dollars each.
573
00:39:48,348 --> 00:39:52,901
This derelict school bus
is the only one on Ebeye.
574
00:39:52,901 --> 00:39:55,568
They can't afford to replace it.
575
00:40:10,352 --> 00:40:13,003
- The base is not good for us,
576
00:40:13,003 --> 00:40:17,390
the people of Marshall Islands,
we have no need for it.
577
00:40:17,390 --> 00:40:19,267
- [John] It's been used to test missiles
578
00:40:19,267 --> 00:40:21,934
to fire at countries like China.
579
00:40:23,442 --> 00:40:27,627
- Yes, and anywhere else if they want to.
580
00:40:27,627 --> 00:40:32,034
- [John] What would you
like to see happen there?
581
00:40:32,034 --> 00:40:33,951
- I want our land back.
582
00:40:41,738 --> 00:40:44,321
(violin music)
583
00:40:48,668 --> 00:40:50,226
- [John Narrating] This is Shanghai,
584
00:40:50,226 --> 00:40:53,246
the historic port on the Yangtze River,
585
00:40:53,246 --> 00:40:55,079
China's greatest city.
586
00:40:58,406 --> 00:41:00,578
I have arranged to meet
the American author
587
00:41:00,578 --> 00:41:03,938
James Bradley, whose
latest best-selling book
588
00:41:03,938 --> 00:41:08,105
The China Mirage, reveals an
extraordinary hidden history
589
00:41:09,093 --> 00:41:12,762
of American power and modern China.
590
00:41:12,762 --> 00:41:15,876
- It was almost illegal
for someone like me
591
00:41:15,876 --> 00:41:18,870
to know of Chinese for almost
all of American history.
592
00:41:18,870 --> 00:41:22,064
The Chinese came to America to mine gold
593
00:41:22,064 --> 00:41:24,722
and build the railroads
and Americans decided
594
00:41:24,722 --> 00:41:26,324
we didn't like the competition,
595
00:41:26,324 --> 00:41:29,887
so in 1882 we had the
Chinese Exclusion Acts
596
00:41:29,887 --> 00:41:32,651
which kept the Chinese
out of the United States
597
00:41:32,651 --> 00:41:34,508
for about 100 years.
598
00:41:34,508 --> 00:41:37,407
So you have the largest
population in the world
599
00:41:37,407 --> 00:41:39,507
that can't come to the United States,
600
00:41:39,507 --> 00:41:41,103
so at just the point we're putting up
601
00:41:41,103 --> 00:41:44,253
the Statue of Liberty
saying, we welcome everybody,
602
00:41:44,253 --> 00:41:46,305
we were erecting a wall saying,
603
00:41:46,305 --> 00:41:49,805
we welcome everybody except those Chinese.
604
00:41:51,429 --> 00:41:54,135
- [John Narrating] Fear
of a rising China today
605
00:41:54,135 --> 00:41:57,463
is the latest chapter in
a history of propaganda
606
00:41:57,463 --> 00:42:01,630
that presented the Chinese
as uncouth and infantile.
607
00:42:08,451 --> 00:42:11,779
To western popular and political culture,
608
00:42:11,779 --> 00:42:15,132
the Chinese became the Yellow Peril.
609
00:42:15,132 --> 00:42:16,255
(piano music)
610
00:42:16,255 --> 00:42:20,243
And racial stereotypes
bore the constant theme
611
00:42:20,243 --> 00:42:21,826
of fear and threat.
612
00:42:23,881 --> 00:42:28,082
- [Announcer] Boris Karloff
as the evil Fu Manchu.
613
00:42:28,082 --> 00:42:32,165
His passion for power
twisting his brilliant mind
614
00:42:33,744 --> 00:42:37,911
as he revels in the horrors of
human sacrifice and torture.
615
00:42:43,061 --> 00:42:45,478
Behind the mask of Fu Manchu.
616
00:42:49,862 --> 00:42:53,380
- [John Narrating] This
caricature of an entire people
617
00:42:53,380 --> 00:42:56,047
concealed another agenda: opium.
618
00:43:02,258 --> 00:43:05,386
For the American elite
in the 19th century,
619
00:43:05,386 --> 00:43:07,969
China was a goal mine of drugs.
620
00:43:10,384 --> 00:43:11,398
- Warren Delano,
621
00:43:11,398 --> 00:43:14,328
the grandfather of
Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
622
00:43:14,328 --> 00:43:16,769
was the American opium king of China.
623
00:43:16,769 --> 00:43:19,152
He was the biggest American opium dealer
624
00:43:19,152 --> 00:43:20,709
second to the British.
625
00:43:20,709 --> 00:43:24,364
He welcomed the first
American ship into China
626
00:43:24,364 --> 00:43:26,786
to help out with the opium wars.
627
00:43:26,786 --> 00:43:28,771
Much of the east coast of America,
628
00:43:28,771 --> 00:43:32,259
Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Princeton,
629
00:43:32,259 --> 00:43:34,509
were born from opium money.
630
00:43:36,594 --> 00:43:38,992
The American Industrial Revolution
631
00:43:38,992 --> 00:43:41,848
was funded by huge pools of money.
632
00:43:41,848 --> 00:43:42,681
Where did this come from?
633
00:43:42,681 --> 00:43:44,562
It came from illegal drugs
634
00:43:44,562 --> 00:43:48,002
in the biggest market in the world: China.
635
00:43:48,002 --> 00:43:48,835
- Let me get this right.
636
00:43:48,835 --> 00:43:53,002
The grandfather of arguably
the most liberal president,
637
00:43:54,636 --> 00:43:58,511
Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
was a drug runner.
638
00:43:58,511 --> 00:43:59,344
- Yes sir.
639
00:43:59,344 --> 00:44:03,340
Franklin Delano Roosevelt never
made much money in his life.
640
00:44:03,340 --> 00:44:06,808
He had public service jobs
that were very lowly paid,
641
00:44:06,808 --> 00:44:09,175
but he had yachts, he had summer homes,
642
00:44:09,175 --> 00:44:11,032
he had mansions in New York City.
643
00:44:11,032 --> 00:44:13,145
The kids went to private schools.
644
00:44:13,145 --> 00:44:17,032
He inherited a fortune from
Warren Delano, his father,
645
00:44:17,032 --> 00:44:20,828
who was the American opium king of China.
646
00:44:20,828 --> 00:44:24,606
If you scratch anyone with
the name Forbes in their name,
647
00:44:24,606 --> 00:44:29,046
John Forbes Kerry, Secretary
of State John Forbes Kerry--
648
00:44:29,046 --> 00:44:30,625
- That's the present Secretary of State.
649
00:44:30,625 --> 00:44:31,476
- Yes sir.
650
00:44:31,476 --> 00:44:32,981
You'll find opium money.
651
00:44:32,981 --> 00:44:36,763
His great-grandfather was an opium dealer.
652
00:44:36,763 --> 00:44:38,236
How big was opium money?
653
00:44:38,236 --> 00:44:40,860
Opium money built the
first industrial city
654
00:44:40,860 --> 00:44:43,923
in the United States,
Lowell, Massachusetts.
655
00:44:43,923 --> 00:44:47,238
It built the first five
railroads in the United States.
656
00:44:47,238 --> 00:44:49,314
Opium money all over the east coast,
657
00:44:49,314 --> 00:44:50,478
but it wasn't talked about.
658
00:44:50,478 --> 00:44:52,430
It was called the China Trade.
659
00:44:52,430 --> 00:44:54,759
And if you go to various museums,
660
00:44:54,759 --> 00:44:57,759
you can see teas and silks exhibited
661
00:44:59,093 --> 00:45:03,905
and they keep quiet about
all that big opium money.
662
00:45:03,905 --> 00:45:06,657
- [John Narrating] In the
scramble to get opium money,
663
00:45:06,657 --> 00:45:09,269
China was invaded and colonized
664
00:45:09,269 --> 00:45:12,686
by Britain and the other imperial powers.
665
00:45:15,002 --> 00:45:18,752
Foreign armies grabbed
whole swaths of China.
666
00:45:19,795 --> 00:45:22,919
This is the American
army in Tiananmen Square,
667
00:45:22,919 --> 00:45:24,252
Peking, in 1900.
668
00:45:27,730 --> 00:45:30,854
Great cities like Shanghai were taken over
669
00:45:30,854 --> 00:45:32,854
and declared concessions
670
00:45:34,262 --> 00:45:37,640
and foreigners lived a life
of privilege and luxury
671
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:41,557
amidst terrible poverty
imposed on the Chinese.
672
00:45:51,531 --> 00:45:54,980
A resistance known as the Boxer Rebellion
673
00:45:54,980 --> 00:45:57,397
was put down with a savagery.
674
00:45:58,976 --> 00:46:01,672
This rape of China set the tone
675
00:46:01,672 --> 00:46:04,516
for how China was perceived in the West
676
00:46:04,516 --> 00:46:06,766
well into the 20th century.
677
00:46:09,139 --> 00:46:11,722
This is the distinguished historian
678
00:46:11,722 --> 00:46:16,476
Theodore H. White, an
advisor to the White House,
679
00:46:16,476 --> 00:46:18,393
speaking in the 1960's.
680
00:46:19,365 --> 00:46:24,203
- Perhaps China is too vast
to be governed by mercy.
681
00:46:24,203 --> 00:46:26,953
Yet if Chinese mind craves order,
682
00:46:28,262 --> 00:46:29,866
they must be brought to recognize
683
00:46:29,866 --> 00:46:34,033
they are the biggest factor
in the world's disorder.
684
00:46:35,410 --> 00:46:39,327
And we must untangle the
madness of their mind.
685
00:46:40,625 --> 00:46:42,755
The most difficult task in the world
686
00:46:42,755 --> 00:46:46,255
is to reach the minds of men who hate you.
687
00:46:47,590 --> 00:46:50,208
- [John Narrating] What White
was really complaining about
688
00:46:50,208 --> 00:46:52,106
was the loss of a China that
689
00:46:52,106 --> 00:46:55,162
the imperial West could dominate
690
00:46:55,162 --> 00:46:59,017
and the defeat of General Chiang Kai-Shek,
691
00:46:59,017 --> 00:47:02,558
who with his famously
powerful Christian wife,
692
00:47:02,558 --> 00:47:06,725
Mei-ling Soong, guarded
America's interests in China.
693
00:47:08,409 --> 00:47:12,727
That is, until they
were thrown out in 1949
694
00:47:12,727 --> 00:47:16,394
by a communist revolution
led by Mao Zedong.
695
00:47:17,782 --> 00:47:20,765
- Mao had beaten Chiang
Kai-Shek three times
696
00:47:20,765 --> 00:47:24,607
in huge battles involving
millions of combatants.
697
00:47:24,607 --> 00:47:27,261
Mao was a winner in this contest from
698
00:47:27,261 --> 00:47:30,678
the early 1930's on, but we
knew very little about it
699
00:47:30,678 --> 00:47:34,345
and people don't
understand that even today.
700
00:47:35,230 --> 00:47:37,481
- [Announcer] Shanghai
hears the message clearly
701
00:47:37,481 --> 00:47:40,657
as foreign businessmen
board up their shops.
702
00:47:40,657 --> 00:47:44,574
Go now, go quickly, for communism marches.
703
00:47:44,574 --> 00:47:47,420
Take what you can, but flee.
704
00:47:47,420 --> 00:47:49,402
In pell-mell haste, the Western powers
705
00:47:49,402 --> 00:47:51,532
evacuate the city they have built,
706
00:47:51,532 --> 00:47:54,580
for good and bad alike must leave.
707
00:47:54,580 --> 00:47:56,346
The businessmen come for profit
708
00:47:56,346 --> 00:47:59,247
as well as missionaries come to heal
709
00:47:59,247 --> 00:48:01,997
must say goodbye as out the Yancy
710
00:48:02,868 --> 00:48:04,814
steams the last of Western influence
711
00:48:04,814 --> 00:48:06,981
and farewell to a century.
712
00:48:08,267 --> 00:48:10,517
(shouting)
713
00:48:11,912 --> 00:48:14,436
- [John Narrating] Even today,
it's difficult to understand
714
00:48:14,436 --> 00:48:17,853
the paranoia ignited by Mao's revolution.
715
00:48:21,212 --> 00:48:23,388
- As we look at China on the map,
716
00:48:23,388 --> 00:48:26,438
we can see that China is the basic cause
717
00:48:26,438 --> 00:48:28,546
of all of our troubles in Asia.
718
00:48:28,546 --> 00:48:32,213
- I believe that for
the sake of our safety,
719
00:48:34,630 --> 00:48:38,797
it is necessary to be
prepared for the possibility
720
00:48:39,909 --> 00:48:43,992
of a Chinese missile attack
on the United States.
721
00:48:47,033 --> 00:48:49,363
- [John Narrating] One
of the myths about Mao
722
00:48:49,363 --> 00:48:54,236
is that he was an implacable
enemy of the capitalist West.
723
00:48:54,236 --> 00:48:56,986
(chorus singing)
724
00:49:04,695 --> 00:49:08,851
Shanghai today is a
prosperous international city
725
00:49:08,851 --> 00:49:12,684
still run by the communists,
at least in name.
726
00:49:22,213 --> 00:49:25,757
- When I was last in China
more than a generation ago,
727
00:49:25,757 --> 00:49:30,626
the loudest noise was the
tinkling of bicycle bells.
728
00:49:30,626 --> 00:49:33,655
Mao had just died, the streets were dark,
729
00:49:33,655 --> 00:49:35,493
the universities were closed.
730
00:49:35,493 --> 00:49:38,003
The chaos of the cultural revolution
731
00:49:38,003 --> 00:49:41,206
had given way to a great silence.
732
00:49:41,206 --> 00:49:45,661
"We're exhausted," was the
freest comment I heard.
733
00:49:45,661 --> 00:49:49,569
Coming back, the change
is barely comprehensible.
734
00:49:49,569 --> 00:49:53,900
Here in Shanghai, the
freedom bears no comparison.
735
00:49:53,900 --> 00:49:56,327
Yes, there are issues with human rights,
736
00:49:56,327 --> 00:49:59,293
especially the right to
speak against the state
737
00:49:59,293 --> 00:50:01,794
and challenge its power.
738
00:50:01,794 --> 00:50:04,569
Since I was last here, millions of people
739
00:50:04,569 --> 00:50:06,774
have been lifted out of poverty,
740
00:50:06,774 --> 00:50:11,283
many of them into an
entirely new middle class.
741
00:50:11,283 --> 00:50:14,564
This epic is still barely
understood in the West,
742
00:50:14,564 --> 00:50:18,064
or should that be willfully misunderstood?
743
00:50:19,076 --> 00:50:22,677
The truth is that China
has matched America
744
00:50:22,677 --> 00:50:25,730
at its own great game of capitalism
745
00:50:25,730 --> 00:50:27,813
and that is unforgivable.
746
00:50:31,606 --> 00:50:34,501
- [John Narrating] One measure
of China's new capitalism
747
00:50:34,501 --> 00:50:36,418
is the Hurun Rich List.
748
00:50:37,951 --> 00:50:40,459
This league table of China's mega-rich
749
00:50:40,459 --> 00:50:43,472
is published by Rupert Hoogewerf,
750
00:50:43,472 --> 00:50:47,139
an old Etonian whose
Chinese name is Hu Run.
751
00:50:50,031 --> 00:50:52,021
He's received many awards,
752
00:50:52,021 --> 00:50:54,854
including China's Man of the Year.
753
00:50:55,872 --> 00:50:58,859
- This year, 2015, has probably been
754
00:50:58,859 --> 00:51:01,047
the most extraordinary
year of wealth creation
755
00:51:01,047 --> 00:51:03,346
in the history of China again.
756
00:51:03,346 --> 00:51:06,238
I've been doing this
list for 15, 16 years.
757
00:51:06,238 --> 00:51:08,988
I've never seen a year like 2015.
758
00:51:10,243 --> 00:51:14,348
Normally for 200 million
pounds or 300 million dollars,
759
00:51:14,348 --> 00:51:17,618
we find say about 800,000 people.
760
00:51:17,618 --> 00:51:20,405
This year, 2015, it's doubled.
761
00:51:20,405 --> 00:51:22,851
There'll be more dollar
billionaires known about in China
762
00:51:22,851 --> 00:51:24,222
than in the US.
763
00:51:24,222 --> 00:51:25,911
So the US, up until now,
764
00:51:25,911 --> 00:51:29,262
has been the leader in terms of
765
00:51:29,262 --> 00:51:33,062
the most successful business
tycoons in the world.
766
00:51:33,062 --> 00:51:36,604
China 2015, will have overtaken the US.
767
00:51:36,604 --> 00:51:37,604
So, amazing.
768
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:46,519
- [John Narrating] Modern China
is full of telling ironies,
769
00:51:46,519 --> 00:51:49,528
not least this museum
that was once the house
770
00:51:49,528 --> 00:51:52,587
where Mao and his
comrades secretly founded
771
00:51:52,587 --> 00:51:55,670
the communist party of China in 1921.
772
00:52:10,944 --> 00:52:14,063
Today it stands in the
heart of an exclusive,
773
00:52:14,063 --> 00:52:16,896
very capitalist shopping district.
774
00:52:26,268 --> 00:52:30,310
- When you leave this shrine
to China's great revolution,
775
00:52:30,310 --> 00:52:32,549
you're confronted by a surreal spectacle.
776
00:52:32,549 --> 00:52:33,574
For right outside where the
777
00:52:33,574 --> 00:52:36,223
Chinese communist party was born,
778
00:52:36,223 --> 00:52:39,180
are the very symbols of capitalism.
779
00:52:39,180 --> 00:52:43,396
Starbucks, Apple, Cartier,
Dolce and Gabbana,
780
00:52:43,396 --> 00:52:47,461
and down there perhaps the
free market's greatest triumph:
781
00:52:47,461 --> 00:52:51,081
bottled water that insures you live young,
782
00:52:51,081 --> 00:52:55,881
costing six pounds for a
small bottle in my hotel.
783
00:52:55,881 --> 00:52:59,333
Would Mao spin in his tomb if he was here?
784
00:52:59,333 --> 00:53:00,882
I'm not so sure.
785
00:53:00,882 --> 00:53:04,284
Hidden history is always
the key to the truth.
786
00:53:04,284 --> 00:53:08,451
Five years before his great
communist revolution in 1949,
787
00:53:09,514 --> 00:53:13,532
Mao sent this secret
message to Washington.
788
00:53:13,532 --> 00:53:16,328
"China must industrialize," wrote Mao,
789
00:53:16,328 --> 00:53:19,940
"this can only be done by free enterprise.
790
00:53:19,940 --> 00:53:23,090
"Chinese and American
interests fit together
791
00:53:23,090 --> 00:53:25,863
"economically and politically.
792
00:53:25,863 --> 00:53:29,850
"America need not fear that
we will not be cooperative.
793
00:53:29,850 --> 00:53:32,994
"We cannot risk crossing America.
794
00:53:32,994 --> 00:53:35,494
"We cannot risk any conflict."
795
00:53:36,630 --> 00:53:38,463
Mao received no reply.
796
00:53:40,176 --> 00:53:41,843
Nothing has changed.
797
00:53:45,812 --> 00:53:47,559
- Mao Zedong was looking to be a friend
798
00:53:47,559 --> 00:53:50,329
with the United States from the beginning.
799
00:53:50,329 --> 00:53:52,184
Mao says, I will go meet
800
00:53:52,184 --> 00:53:54,441
Franklin Roosevelt in the White House.
801
00:53:54,441 --> 00:53:57,330
Mao reaches out in 1950 to Harry Truman.
802
00:53:57,330 --> 00:53:59,285
He reaches out to Dwight Eisenhower.
803
00:53:59,285 --> 00:54:01,368
His hand was tossed away.
804
00:54:05,467 --> 00:54:07,234
- [John Narrating] This opportunity that
805
00:54:07,234 --> 00:54:09,227
might have changed history,
806
00:54:09,227 --> 00:54:13,141
prevented wars, saved countless lives,
807
00:54:13,141 --> 00:54:16,449
was lost because the
truth of Mao's overtures
808
00:54:16,449 --> 00:54:20,032
was denied in the
Washington of the 1950's.
809
00:54:21,450 --> 00:54:25,658
State Department officials
who had carried Mao's messages
810
00:54:25,658 --> 00:54:29,491
were condemned unjustly
as communist traitors.
811
00:54:32,278 --> 00:54:36,444
- Everybody who knew Mao,
who spoke Chinese, was gone.
812
00:54:36,444 --> 00:54:38,828
In the 1950's, the State Department
813
00:54:38,828 --> 00:54:41,745
had no employees who spoke Chinese.
814
00:54:42,754 --> 00:54:45,054
It's resulted in us not having relations
815
00:54:45,054 --> 00:54:49,221
with the number one, most
populous country in the world.
816
00:54:51,861 --> 00:54:55,069
- [John Narrating] In 1979, this man,
817
00:54:55,069 --> 00:54:58,902
Deng Xaoping, became
China's paramount leader.
818
00:54:59,907 --> 00:55:04,074
He said, "Socialism does
not mean shared poverty."
819
00:55:08,869 --> 00:55:11,037
This was code for the most radical reform
820
00:55:11,037 --> 00:55:15,204
since Mao's revolution, the
return of capitalism to China,
821
00:55:17,459 --> 00:55:21,459
but this time controlled
by the communist party.
822
00:55:24,393 --> 00:55:26,060
"To be rich is glorious,"
823
00:55:26,060 --> 00:55:29,125
Deng was reported as saying.
824
00:55:29,125 --> 00:55:31,298
America was now threatened
by the emergence
825
00:55:31,298 --> 00:55:33,465
of a vast image of itself.
826
00:55:42,373 --> 00:55:45,177
This is one of the many very exclusive
827
00:55:45,177 --> 00:55:48,346
gated communities in Shanghai
828
00:55:48,346 --> 00:55:50,577
where an apartment is one of the prizes
829
00:55:50,577 --> 00:55:52,327
of the new communism.
830
00:55:58,014 --> 00:56:01,235
I'd arranged to see
Professor Zhang Weiwei,
831
00:56:01,235 --> 00:56:04,083
a close aide to the late Deng Xiaoping,
832
00:56:04,083 --> 00:56:06,250
the man who changed China.
833
00:56:07,913 --> 00:56:12,080
- Deng is really, extremely
long-term visionary leader
834
00:56:16,114 --> 00:56:20,234
with an exceedingly
long-term at strategic vision
835
00:56:20,234 --> 00:56:22,944
for his country and for his people.
836
00:56:22,944 --> 00:56:25,873
China is still following that path.
837
00:56:25,873 --> 00:56:28,296
Actually, this is really a tradition
838
00:56:28,296 --> 00:56:30,760
from China's long history.
839
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:33,243
You look at even like Mao.
840
00:56:33,243 --> 00:56:35,767
He said we should surpass UK,
841
00:56:35,767 --> 00:56:38,209
by which we should
surpass the United States,
842
00:56:38,209 --> 00:56:41,582
so these tradition continues to this day.
843
00:56:41,582 --> 00:56:45,101
Even Xi Jinping to this day
is also doing this idea.
844
00:56:45,101 --> 00:56:49,092
Actually, what many Chinese have problem
845
00:56:49,092 --> 00:56:52,593
with the Western media is
the stereotypes about China.
846
00:56:52,593 --> 00:56:56,760
If you contend with stereotypes,
you miss so many things.
847
00:56:58,025 --> 00:57:00,491
If BBC broadcast something,
848
00:57:00,491 --> 00:57:03,915
they are happy to always mention
the communist dictatorship,
849
00:57:03,915 --> 00:57:05,165
this autocracy.
850
00:57:06,079 --> 00:57:08,006
Actually, with this kind of label
851
00:57:08,006 --> 00:57:11,597
you cannot understand this China as it is.
852
00:57:11,597 --> 00:57:15,347
But if you watch BBC or
CNN or read Economist
853
00:57:18,587 --> 00:57:21,845
and try to understand
China, it will be a failure.
854
00:57:21,845 --> 00:57:23,178
It's impossible.
855
00:57:24,351 --> 00:57:26,489
- Multiple parties fight
for political power
856
00:57:26,489 --> 00:57:28,098
and everyone holding on to them
857
00:57:28,098 --> 00:57:29,562
as the only path to salvation
858
00:57:29,562 --> 00:57:31,742
to the long-suffering, developing world.
859
00:57:31,742 --> 00:57:32,780
- [John Narrating] This is Eric Li,
860
00:57:32,780 --> 00:57:36,414
a Shanghai entrepreneur
educated in America
861
00:57:36,414 --> 00:57:38,954
and typical of a new, confident,
862
00:57:38,954 --> 00:57:41,121
outspoken political class.
863
00:57:42,889 --> 00:57:46,129
- In China, there are a lot of problems.
864
00:57:46,129 --> 00:57:50,719
But at the moment, the
Chinese, the party state,
865
00:57:50,719 --> 00:57:55,085
has proven an extraordinary
ability to change.
866
00:57:55,085 --> 00:57:56,548
I make the joke:
867
00:57:56,548 --> 00:58:00,125
in America you can
change political parties
868
00:58:00,125 --> 00:58:03,287
but you can't change the policies.
869
00:58:03,287 --> 00:58:05,119
In China you cannot change the party
870
00:58:05,119 --> 00:58:07,452
but you can change policies.
871
00:58:08,772 --> 00:58:13,538
In 65 or 66 years, China has
been run by one single party
872
00:58:13,538 --> 00:58:17,815
yet the political changes
that have taken place
873
00:58:17,815 --> 00:58:21,482
in China these past 66
years have been wider
874
00:58:22,498 --> 00:58:25,167
and broader and greater than probably
875
00:58:25,167 --> 00:58:27,858
any other major country in modern memory.
876
00:58:27,858 --> 00:58:30,282
- So in that time, China
ceased to be communist.
877
00:58:30,282 --> 00:58:31,552
Is that what you're saying?
878
00:58:31,552 --> 00:58:34,910
- Well, China is a market economy.
879
00:58:34,910 --> 00:58:36,066
It's a vibrant market economy
880
00:58:36,066 --> 00:58:38,087
but it is not a capitalist country.
881
00:58:38,087 --> 00:58:39,004
Here's why.
882
00:58:41,095 --> 00:58:44,171
There's no way a group of billionaires
883
00:58:44,171 --> 00:58:46,671
could control the party bureau
884
00:58:47,859 --> 00:58:51,776
as billionaires control
American policy making.
885
00:58:53,308 --> 00:58:56,207
So in China, you have a
vibrant market economy
886
00:58:56,207 --> 00:59:00,374
but capital does not rise
above political authority.
887
00:59:01,298 --> 00:59:04,548
Capital does not have enshrined rights.
888
00:59:07,024 --> 00:59:09,142
In America, capital,
889
00:59:09,142 --> 00:59:11,457
the interest of capital and capital itself
890
00:59:11,457 --> 00:59:14,457
has risen above the American nation.
891
00:59:16,316 --> 00:59:19,759
The political authority cannot
check the power of capital.
892
00:59:19,759 --> 00:59:21,731
That's why America is a capitalist country
893
00:59:21,731 --> 00:59:23,064
but China's not.
894
00:59:25,805 --> 00:59:27,354
- [John Narrating] This
is the ironic title
895
00:59:27,354 --> 00:59:30,940
of a best-selling book by Zhang Lijia,
896
00:59:30,940 --> 00:59:35,487
a journalist and critic
who lives in Beijing.
897
00:59:35,487 --> 00:59:38,529
- Many Americans imagine
that the Chinese people
898
00:59:38,529 --> 00:59:42,696
live a miserable, repressed
life with no freedom whatsoever.
899
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:48,365
That's not quite true.
900
00:59:48,365 --> 00:59:52,497
If you speak to many
ordinary Chinese people,
901
00:59:52,497 --> 00:59:55,892
they will tell you they feel
their lives are quite free.
902
00:59:55,892 --> 00:59:59,163
Some 500 million people
have been lifted off poverty
903
00:59:59,163 --> 01:00:01,354
and some would say probably
600 million people.
904
01:00:01,354 --> 01:00:03,604
That's a great achievement.
905
01:00:05,206 --> 01:00:09,874
For many Americans, the Yellow
Peril has never left them.
906
01:00:09,874 --> 01:00:12,972
I think there's a fear about China.
907
01:00:12,972 --> 01:00:15,224
There's a fear of China's rapid rise,
908
01:00:15,224 --> 01:00:18,381
but it also has a lot to do with China's
909
01:00:18,381 --> 01:00:20,631
label as a communist state.
910
01:00:24,854 --> 01:00:27,153
- China's objectives are modest
911
01:00:27,153 --> 01:00:29,403
compared with their weight.
912
01:00:30,785 --> 01:00:32,943
They're not trying to run the world.
913
01:00:32,943 --> 01:00:36,187
They're not even trying
to run the Asian-Pacific.
914
01:00:36,187 --> 01:00:38,889
I think they want to keep America
915
01:00:38,889 --> 01:00:42,171
from dominating the Asian-Pacific.
916
01:00:42,171 --> 01:00:45,346
So they have what they believe
917
01:00:45,346 --> 01:00:47,855
is their rightful place
in the Asian-Pacific,
918
01:00:47,855 --> 01:00:48,688
because of all civilizations
919
01:00:48,688 --> 01:00:50,671
and all the history on their side,
920
01:00:50,671 --> 01:00:52,466
so their objectives are really modest
921
01:00:52,466 --> 01:00:54,883
compared with their capacity.
922
01:00:55,808 --> 01:00:58,211
- The new wealth in China,
923
01:00:58,211 --> 01:01:01,697
they often say this is the product of
924
01:01:01,697 --> 01:01:04,614
self-made entrepreneurial skill but
925
01:01:06,300 --> 01:01:08,717
is it not also the product of
926
01:01:10,297 --> 01:01:13,127
the exploitation of people at the bottom,
927
01:01:13,127 --> 01:01:15,138
what are known in China as migrants.
928
01:01:15,138 --> 01:01:18,212
But they're not really
migrants, they're Chinese.
929
01:01:18,212 --> 01:01:21,906
- (laughs) If you really go to
930
01:01:21,906 --> 01:01:24,647
talk to these migrant workers,
931
01:01:24,647 --> 01:01:28,132
you will find quite surprisingly,
932
01:01:28,132 --> 01:01:31,414
over the past five to seven years,
933
01:01:31,414 --> 01:01:35,331
they have experienced a
greater income increase
934
01:01:36,412 --> 01:01:39,132
than any other social groups.
935
01:01:39,132 --> 01:01:41,549
China is not a class society.
936
01:01:43,828 --> 01:01:47,828
- [John Narrating] But
China is a class society.
937
01:01:49,025 --> 01:01:51,973
These are the homes of migrant workers,
938
01:01:51,973 --> 01:01:55,556
people who build and
service the new China.
939
01:02:03,285 --> 01:02:06,139
Here it's not uncommon for three families
940
01:02:06,139 --> 01:02:08,056
to share one tiny flat.
941
01:02:13,558 --> 01:02:18,195
- You know, you associate a
socialist country with equality
942
01:02:18,195 --> 01:02:21,406
but unfortunately it seems
the reform has started.
943
01:02:21,406 --> 01:02:22,797
China has become one of the
944
01:02:22,797 --> 01:02:25,504
most unequal societies in the world.
945
01:02:25,504 --> 01:02:27,477
The income gap is widening.
946
01:02:27,477 --> 01:02:29,686
Governments, I feel,
have retreated some of
947
01:02:29,686 --> 01:02:33,928
the responsibilities, left
the markets to take over,
948
01:02:33,928 --> 01:02:36,281
but the market does not
always treat women kindly.
949
01:02:36,281 --> 01:02:39,526
Some private companies
that would just refuse
950
01:02:39,526 --> 01:02:42,276
to hire child-bearing aged women.
951
01:02:43,865 --> 01:02:45,588
And sometimes when women became pregnant,
952
01:02:45,588 --> 01:02:47,494
they would sack them.
953
01:02:47,494 --> 01:02:49,670
Because they don't want to
pay their maternity leave.
954
01:02:49,670 --> 01:02:53,974
And in fact, the income
gap has grown much bigger
955
01:02:53,974 --> 01:02:55,807
between men and women.
956
01:02:57,073 --> 01:02:59,573
- Your old boss, Deng Xaoping,
957
01:03:00,780 --> 01:03:04,460
presided over the bloodshed
in Tiananmen Square.
958
01:03:04,460 --> 01:03:08,627
What would you say to the
survivors of Tiananmen Square,
959
01:03:11,537 --> 01:03:14,370
because so many of those did fight
960
01:03:15,210 --> 01:03:19,210
for what they saw as
democratic change in China?
961
01:03:20,592 --> 01:03:24,175
- In 1989, there were
two political forces.
962
01:03:25,375 --> 01:03:29,880
One of those were presented
by the Chinese students.
963
01:03:29,880 --> 01:03:32,845
Their hero was Mikhail Gorbachev,
964
01:03:32,845 --> 01:03:35,215
who happened to be in Beijing.
965
01:03:35,215 --> 01:03:36,728
Their slogan was,
966
01:03:36,728 --> 01:03:40,087
"Soviet Union's Today
is China's Tomorrow."
967
01:03:40,087 --> 01:03:42,957
So the idea was political reform first,
968
01:03:42,957 --> 01:03:44,775
other reform second.
969
01:03:44,775 --> 01:03:47,289
Otherwise, China would be hopeless.
970
01:03:47,289 --> 01:03:49,705
Deng's message was the opposite.
971
01:03:49,705 --> 01:03:52,630
He thought Gorbachev was an idiot.
972
01:03:52,630 --> 01:03:56,853
He thought China must have
economic reform first,
973
01:03:56,853 --> 01:03:58,820
other reform second.
974
01:03:58,820 --> 01:04:01,487
This priority must be set clear.
975
01:04:02,769 --> 01:04:07,493
Unfortunately, at that
particular moment in 1989,
976
01:04:07,493 --> 01:04:11,594
the two political forces
could not reach a compromise.
977
01:04:11,594 --> 01:04:14,344
That's when the tragedy occurred.
978
01:04:15,644 --> 01:04:18,133
- [John Narrating] It
was more than a tragedy.
979
01:04:18,133 --> 01:04:20,139
It was a massacre
980
01:04:20,139 --> 01:04:24,306
of which the memory remains a
raw presence in modern China.
981
01:04:27,380 --> 01:04:31,380
- Why does the Chinese
state still fear the few?
982
01:04:33,975 --> 01:04:37,161
The few who speak out,
and I'm thinking of--
983
01:04:37,161 --> 01:04:38,999
- Liu Xiaobo? (laughs)
984
01:04:38,999 --> 01:04:40,562
- [John] Exactly.
985
01:04:40,562 --> 01:04:44,729
This man won the Nobel Peace
Prize and he's in prison.
986
01:04:46,282 --> 01:04:50,078
- He violated Chinese law by a big margin.
987
01:04:50,078 --> 01:04:52,804
So actually the freedom of expression,
988
01:04:52,804 --> 01:04:55,999
similar views are aired by many people
989
01:04:55,999 --> 01:04:58,916
but he really going to the extreme.
990
01:05:00,878 --> 01:05:03,098
- [John Narrating] Liu Xiaobo
challenged the government
991
01:05:03,098 --> 01:05:05,851
to implement democratic reforms
992
01:05:05,851 --> 01:05:09,434
and he spent a total
of 13 years in prison.
993
01:05:12,368 --> 01:05:14,761
- Why can't a confident China
994
01:05:14,761 --> 01:05:17,840
accept a criticism like that?
995
01:05:17,840 --> 01:05:20,674
- Nobel peace committee
makes huge mistake.
996
01:05:20,674 --> 01:05:22,932
They owe the Chinese an explanation.
997
01:05:22,932 --> 01:05:26,531
If you cross a line, you
violate the constitution,
998
01:05:26,531 --> 01:05:29,259
you violate so many laws,
you should be punished.
999
01:05:29,259 --> 01:05:31,842
(somber music)
1000
01:05:35,650 --> 01:05:37,047
- [John Narrating] And yet in China today,
1001
01:05:37,047 --> 01:05:40,177
the spirit of protest and dissent
1002
01:05:40,177 --> 01:05:42,510
lives on in different forms.
1003
01:05:45,001 --> 01:05:48,251
In 2015, strikes and community protests
1004
01:05:49,172 --> 01:05:51,922
and activism reach record levels.
1005
01:05:53,175 --> 01:05:57,092
This resistance is seldom
reported in the West.
1006
01:05:58,112 --> 01:06:01,541
- So there are lots of protests in China.
1007
01:06:01,541 --> 01:06:03,479
Typical for example, land being grabbed by
1008
01:06:03,479 --> 01:06:06,479
officials for commercial development
1009
01:06:07,514 --> 01:06:10,221
and the farmers are not
being compensated properly.
1010
01:06:10,221 --> 01:06:12,900
But the farmers now know,
1011
01:06:12,900 --> 01:06:16,128
are more aware of their
rights so they protest.
1012
01:06:16,128 --> 01:06:17,752
Or young workers from the factory,
1013
01:06:17,752 --> 01:06:21,609
they demand a better wage and
a better working condition,
1014
01:06:21,609 --> 01:06:25,760
but many of the protests
they are economic driven,
1015
01:06:25,760 --> 01:06:27,112
not political driven.
1016
01:06:27,112 --> 01:06:29,422
They are regional, not nation-wide.
1017
01:06:29,422 --> 01:06:31,075
So this kind of thing is unlikely
1018
01:06:31,075 --> 01:06:33,229
to develop into real movement
1019
01:06:33,229 --> 01:06:36,479
or so-called, you call that revolution.
1020
01:06:37,530 --> 01:06:38,737
- [John] So the Mao's revolution
1021
01:06:38,737 --> 01:06:41,054
was the last revolution?
1022
01:06:41,054 --> 01:06:45,221
- (laughs) Well, never say never.
1023
01:06:51,909 --> 01:06:54,826
(helicopter whirs)
1024
01:06:57,675 --> 01:07:00,277
- [John Narrating] The
Japanese island of Okinawa
1025
01:07:00,277 --> 01:07:03,694
is occupied by 32 military installations.
1026
01:07:05,066 --> 01:07:08,468
From here, the United
States has attacked Korea,
1027
01:07:08,468 --> 01:07:11,551
Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Iraq.
1028
01:07:15,249 --> 01:07:18,262
The sky is full of planes and helicopters.
1029
01:07:18,262 --> 01:07:21,179
(helicopter whirs)
1030
01:07:26,411 --> 01:07:29,360
Wherever people go, they are fenced in
1031
01:07:29,360 --> 01:07:31,110
and told to keep out.
1032
01:07:36,684 --> 01:07:41,095
Okinawa is the front
line of a beckoning war
1033
01:07:41,095 --> 01:07:42,012
with China.
1034
01:07:44,968 --> 01:07:47,801
(people shouting)
1035
01:07:50,349 --> 01:07:52,599
Aged 87, Fumiko Shimabukuro
1036
01:07:54,047 --> 01:07:57,089
is one of the leaders of
a non-violent resistance
1037
01:07:57,089 --> 01:08:01,089
that's challenging
Washington's "Pivot to Asia."
1038
01:08:13,913 --> 01:08:16,746
(people shouting)
1039
01:09:01,909 --> 01:09:04,424
- [John Narrating] Fumiko is a survivor.
1040
01:09:04,424 --> 01:09:06,947
A quarter of the civilians on the island
1041
01:09:06,947 --> 01:09:10,614
were killed in the
American invasion in 1945
1042
01:09:11,585 --> 01:09:15,752
and a fear of war has been
passed through the generations.
1043
01:09:20,107 --> 01:09:22,690
(gentle music)
1044
01:09:28,481 --> 01:09:31,309
Today, those who witnessed these horrors
1045
01:09:31,309 --> 01:09:34,807
live in a place of extraordinary beauty
1046
01:09:34,807 --> 01:09:38,974
surrounded by coral reefs
and a unique marine life.
1047
01:09:48,318 --> 01:09:50,785
It was here in Henoko Bay
1048
01:09:50,785 --> 01:09:55,395
that the survivors of
World War Two sought refuge
1049
01:09:55,395 --> 01:09:58,978
and it's this they're
now fighting to save.
1050
01:10:00,385 --> 01:10:03,926
It's an epic struggle that
pits these island people
1051
01:10:03,926 --> 01:10:07,676
against the greatest
military power on Earth.
1052
01:10:14,678 --> 01:10:18,269
- This is the office of a
former governor of Okinawa,
1053
01:10:18,269 --> 01:10:19,352
Ota Masahide.
1054
01:10:20,809 --> 01:10:24,476
What is done is create
not so much a museum,
1055
01:10:25,573 --> 01:10:28,406
but an appeal to the outside world
1056
01:10:29,841 --> 01:10:33,368
to understand the resistance in Okinawa,
1057
01:10:33,368 --> 01:10:35,884
to understand the suffering,
1058
01:10:35,884 --> 01:10:38,893
to read its hidden history.
1059
01:10:38,893 --> 01:10:43,195
It begins in 1945 when
the Americans invaded.
1060
01:10:43,195 --> 01:10:46,945
Here's General MacArthur
arriving in Okinawa.
1061
01:10:49,824 --> 01:10:53,292
A second invasion happened 10 years later
1062
01:10:53,292 --> 01:10:54,469
in what became known as
1063
01:10:54,469 --> 01:10:57,734
the Bulldozer's and Bayonets campaign.
1064
01:10:57,734 --> 01:11:01,338
American forces seized
prime agricultural land,
1065
01:11:01,338 --> 01:11:05,306
burned farm houses, and killed livestock.
1066
01:11:05,306 --> 01:11:07,655
The dispossessed people of Okinawa
1067
01:11:07,655 --> 01:11:11,488
march the length of
Japan, appealing for help.
1068
01:11:13,628 --> 01:11:16,969
- This wall is devoted to
a resistance in Okinawa
1069
01:11:16,969 --> 01:11:18,551
that never ceases.
1070
01:11:18,551 --> 01:11:20,649
Everywhere people go on the island,
1071
01:11:20,649 --> 01:11:23,482
they are confronted by this sign.
1072
01:11:23,482 --> 01:11:26,106
It tells them they must not go past
1073
01:11:26,106 --> 01:11:28,800
this fence topped with barbed wire.
1074
01:11:28,800 --> 01:11:33,149
These fences run like great
ribbons across the island
1075
01:11:33,149 --> 01:11:37,760
and the bases themselves
cut swaths across Okinawa.
1076
01:11:37,760 --> 01:11:39,776
But all around them are people
1077
01:11:39,776 --> 01:11:43,295
with this continuing demonstration,
1078
01:11:43,295 --> 01:11:45,545
this continuing resistance.
1079
01:11:46,590 --> 01:11:48,440
And they have a message.
1080
01:11:48,440 --> 01:11:50,321
It's: "People of the World,
1081
01:11:50,321 --> 01:11:53,150
"Watch what Japan and the US are doing.
1082
01:11:53,150 --> 01:11:56,817
"Don't let them force
the bases on Okinawa."
1083
01:12:53,649 --> 01:12:54,788
- [John Narrating] All this will be lost
1084
01:12:54,788 --> 01:12:55,993
when much of the bay becomes
1085
01:12:55,993 --> 01:12:59,660
concrete runways for
bombers at Camp Schwab,
1086
01:13:00,772 --> 01:13:04,272
the huge US Marine base behind this fence.
1087
01:13:07,578 --> 01:13:09,636
(applause)
1088
01:13:09,636 --> 01:13:12,969
In 2014, Okinawa elected a new governor,
1089
01:13:14,956 --> 01:13:19,123
Takeshi Onaga, who won by
a landslide on one issue.
1090
01:13:20,100 --> 01:13:22,767
Stopping the new base at Henoko.
1091
01:13:24,087 --> 01:13:27,615
This was election night
outside the American base
1092
01:13:27,615 --> 01:13:28,865
at Camp Schwab.
1093
01:13:35,660 --> 01:13:37,910
(cheering)
1094
01:14:10,031 --> 01:14:13,031
♪ We shall overcome ♪
1095
01:14:14,110 --> 01:14:17,777
♪ We shall overcome someday ♪
1096
01:14:21,091 --> 01:14:24,341
♪ Oh, deep in my heart ♪
1097
01:14:25,983 --> 01:14:28,566
♪ I do believe ♪
1098
01:14:30,125 --> 01:14:33,792
♪ We shall overcome someday ♪
1099
01:14:42,097 --> 01:14:44,898
The New Year's celebration
of their victory
1100
01:14:44,898 --> 01:14:47,024
was bittersweet.
1101
01:14:47,024 --> 01:14:49,463
The government in Tokyo resented this
1102
01:14:49,463 --> 01:14:52,880
unprecedented challenge to its authority.
1103
01:14:54,188 --> 01:14:57,783
The issue is now in the Japanese courts.
1104
01:14:57,783 --> 01:15:00,700
Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe,
1105
01:15:01,955 --> 01:15:04,295
has also made clear that with the backing
1106
01:15:04,295 --> 01:15:06,799
of his powerful patron America,
1107
01:15:06,799 --> 01:15:10,640
he wants to reawaken Japanese nationalism
1108
01:15:10,640 --> 01:15:13,307
and reclaim it's military power.
1109
01:15:15,970 --> 01:15:18,887
(helicopter whirs)
1110
01:15:20,715 --> 01:15:23,012
(drum pounds)
1111
01:15:23,012 --> 01:15:25,179
(singing)
1112
01:15:26,770 --> 01:15:30,279
While we were filming this
ceremony outside the base,
1113
01:15:30,279 --> 01:15:32,374
on a day when people paid respect
1114
01:15:32,374 --> 01:15:35,335
to their departed loved ones,
1115
01:15:35,335 --> 01:15:39,257
giant American helicopters
circled above us,
1116
01:15:39,257 --> 01:15:41,174
intimidating as always.
1117
01:15:52,953 --> 01:15:55,803
The threat of these low-flying aircraft
1118
01:15:55,803 --> 01:15:59,292
is a constant presence in Okinawa.
1119
01:15:59,292 --> 01:16:02,481
Teachers often can't
teach because of the noise
1120
01:16:02,481 --> 01:16:03,564
and the fear.
1121
01:16:09,773 --> 01:16:13,052
(somber music)
1122
01:16:13,052 --> 01:16:15,842
This was the carnage
when an American fighter
1123
01:16:15,842 --> 01:16:18,029
crashed into a primary school
1124
01:16:18,029 --> 01:16:21,196
after the pilot had ejected to safety.
1125
01:16:28,706 --> 01:16:32,373
Haru Akira, aged seven,
was terribly burned.
1126
01:17:42,646 --> 01:17:44,558
Akira suffered throughout his youth
1127
01:17:44,558 --> 01:17:47,391
and died from his injuries age 21.
1128
01:17:54,357 --> 01:17:58,101
Another tragedy waits
to happen on Okinawa.
1129
01:17:58,101 --> 01:18:01,226
US military aircraft have been involved
1130
01:18:01,226 --> 01:18:03,726
in 44 accidents on the island.
1131
01:18:05,003 --> 01:18:08,657
The latest threat is this
hybrid plane, the Osprey,
1132
01:18:08,657 --> 01:18:11,324
notorious for its safety issues.
1133
01:18:23,351 --> 01:18:25,851
(dance music)
1134
01:18:30,002 --> 01:18:32,258
Wherever the military is based in Asia,
1135
01:18:32,258 --> 01:18:35,161
there is a relationship with local people,
1136
01:18:35,161 --> 01:18:39,078
especially women, that
often breeds resentment.
1137
01:18:49,419 --> 01:18:53,586
In Okinawa, this resentment
ignited a riot in 1970.
1138
01:18:55,094 --> 01:18:59,096
Scores of American GI's
were pulled from their cars
1139
01:18:59,096 --> 01:19:00,929
which were set alight.
1140
01:19:03,800 --> 01:19:08,089
For Washington and it's
compliant ally in Tokyo,
1141
01:19:08,089 --> 01:19:11,922
it's this kind of
insurrection that they fear.
1142
01:19:17,473 --> 01:19:19,762
During the making of this film,
1143
01:19:19,762 --> 01:19:22,649
a young woman was raped and murdered,
1144
01:19:22,649 --> 01:19:25,814
allegedly by an American
military contractor
1145
01:19:25,814 --> 01:19:27,741
from one of the bases.
1146
01:19:27,741 --> 01:19:29,991
(chanting)
1147
01:19:32,636 --> 01:19:35,911
It was the latest of
thousands of cases of violence
1148
01:19:35,911 --> 01:19:40,037
and it brought massive
crowds into the streets,
1149
01:19:40,037 --> 01:19:41,150
demanding an end to the
1150
01:19:41,150 --> 01:19:44,233
military occupation of their country.
1151
01:19:50,252 --> 01:19:52,974
(aircraft rumbles)
1152
01:19:52,974 --> 01:19:54,975
This is a Mace missile,
1153
01:19:54,975 --> 01:19:58,683
designed to carry a nuclear warhead.
1154
01:19:58,683 --> 01:20:01,558
During the Cold War, the United States
1155
01:20:01,558 --> 01:20:04,101
secretly installed nuclear weapons
1156
01:20:04,101 --> 01:20:06,601
at this launch pad in Okinawa.
1157
01:20:08,908 --> 01:20:11,658
Most of them were aimed at China.
1158
01:20:17,029 --> 01:20:19,580
Today, the nuclear missile site
1159
01:20:19,580 --> 01:20:22,231
is run by a Buddhist organization,
1160
01:20:22,231 --> 01:20:25,148
the Soka Gakkai, as a peace museum.
1161
01:20:26,748 --> 01:20:29,248
- In 1962, the atomic weapons,
1162
01:20:31,214 --> 01:20:33,386
that were on the missile,
1163
01:20:33,386 --> 01:20:35,053
was almost launched.
1164
01:20:37,112 --> 01:20:38,302
- They were almost launched?
1165
01:20:38,302 --> 01:20:42,808
- Yeah, according to the
spokesman of this military base,
1166
01:20:42,808 --> 01:20:45,641
said they were ordered to prepare.
1167
01:20:46,828 --> 01:20:50,245
Then we received second order to stop it.
1168
01:20:52,895 --> 01:20:56,162
- [John Narrating] One of
the American servicemen
1169
01:20:56,162 --> 01:20:57,995
whose job was to fire the Mace missiles
1170
01:20:57,995 --> 01:21:01,663
has since revealed that
China was a nuclear target
1171
01:21:01,663 --> 01:21:04,996
during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.
1172
01:21:07,116 --> 01:21:11,435
- We were told that we had
to launch all the missiles.
1173
01:21:11,435 --> 01:21:14,284
But we only had one missile
headed towards Russia
1174
01:21:14,284 --> 01:21:15,696
and we did not see why we
1175
01:21:15,696 --> 01:21:18,291
should have to involve
the other countries.
1176
01:21:18,291 --> 01:21:23,167
The captain suggested that
everybody crack the doors open
1177
01:21:23,167 --> 01:21:26,852
so it would take less
time to launch the missile
1178
01:21:26,852 --> 01:21:29,572
if the doors were cracked open.
1179
01:21:29,572 --> 01:21:31,739
(beeping)
1180
01:21:33,210 --> 01:21:34,363
- [John Narrating] One of the launch crews
1181
01:21:34,363 --> 01:21:37,373
was on the point of firing their missiles
1182
01:21:37,373 --> 01:21:42,045
when a duty officer suspected
the order was false.
1183
01:21:42,045 --> 01:21:43,554
- The officer that was on the B side
1184
01:21:43,554 --> 01:21:47,006
was told to send two
men over there with 45's
1185
01:21:47,006 --> 01:21:48,694
and to shoot anybody that tried to launch
1186
01:21:48,694 --> 01:21:51,444
until the situation was resolved.
1187
01:21:53,296 --> 01:21:56,100
And it would only take like 15, 20 seconds
1188
01:21:56,100 --> 01:21:59,998
to run the distance between
the two command centers.
1189
01:21:59,998 --> 01:22:03,787
So those two men kept
that whole crew at bay
1190
01:22:03,787 --> 01:22:07,037
while we made a decision as what to do.
1191
01:22:10,457 --> 01:22:13,279
And it wasn't very long, maybe
two or three seconds later
1192
01:22:13,279 --> 01:22:16,950
where a very nervous major
came over the intercom
1193
01:22:16,950 --> 01:22:19,367
issuing the stand down order.
1194
01:22:22,591 --> 01:22:26,758
And then we just kind of
looked at each other, like
1195
01:22:27,925 --> 01:22:31,592
we could have exterminated
the whole planet.
1196
01:22:34,441 --> 01:22:37,110
The major who had given the launch order
1197
01:22:37,110 --> 01:22:39,305
was quietly court-martialed
1198
01:22:39,305 --> 01:22:42,055
and dismissed from the Air Force.
1199
01:22:43,591 --> 01:22:45,964
- That morning is just as familiar to me
1200
01:22:45,964 --> 01:22:48,738
and as clear as yesterday morning is.
1201
01:22:48,738 --> 01:22:50,886
And this is 53 years later
1202
01:22:50,886 --> 01:22:53,306
and how clear blue the sky was
1203
01:22:53,306 --> 01:22:56,361
and there was just some very light clouds
1204
01:22:56,361 --> 01:22:58,713
and there was a perfect breeze blowing
1205
01:22:58,713 --> 01:23:00,042
at the perfect temperature.
1206
01:23:00,042 --> 01:23:01,435
I did not know what the temperature was,
1207
01:23:01,435 --> 01:23:03,635
but it just felt perfect.
1208
01:23:03,635 --> 01:23:05,851
And we were all just kind of taking it in
1209
01:23:05,851 --> 01:23:08,257
and taking in the smell of the air
1210
01:23:08,257 --> 01:23:11,751
and the sea and the land mixture together
1211
01:23:11,751 --> 01:23:14,947
and everything smelled so beautiful.
1212
01:23:14,947 --> 01:23:18,674
- This is very interesting
because it shows
1213
01:23:18,674 --> 01:23:22,841
the cities in China where these
Mace missiles were aimed at.
1214
01:23:25,954 --> 01:23:28,204
Which ones do we have here?
1215
01:23:29,067 --> 01:23:30,900
- This Okinawa Island.
1216
01:23:31,959 --> 01:23:36,126
So within 2000 kilometers
you find Peking, or Beijing,
1217
01:23:40,831 --> 01:23:44,081
Xi'an, Jiuzhaigou, Hong Kong, Shanghai,
1218
01:23:45,657 --> 01:23:49,490
Taiwan and Taipei, and
Pyongyang, North Korea.
1219
01:23:51,665 --> 01:23:53,998
Within the range of missile.
1220
01:23:55,358 --> 01:23:58,275
(aircraft rumbles)
1221
01:24:16,008 --> 01:24:18,591
(somber music)
1222
01:24:31,441 --> 01:24:32,609
- [John Narrating] This is the work of
1223
01:24:32,609 --> 01:24:35,609
the Okinawan sculptor, Kinjo Minoru.
1224
01:24:36,830 --> 01:24:40,664
It's a tribute to the
suffering and resistance
1225
01:24:40,664 --> 01:24:43,081
of the people of this island.
1226
01:25:07,593 --> 01:25:11,760
More than 1000 miles away on
the Korean island of Jeju,
1227
01:25:12,898 --> 01:25:16,913
these symbols of struggle
are hauntingly similar.
1228
01:25:16,913 --> 01:25:21,054
The work of Korean sculptor Koh Gil-chun,
1229
01:25:21,054 --> 01:25:25,221
represents another fight of
island people for freedom.
1230
01:25:26,445 --> 01:25:29,028
(gentle music)
1231
01:25:36,290 --> 01:25:39,943
A semi-tropical sanctuary
of unusual beauty,
1232
01:25:39,943 --> 01:25:43,398
Jeju Island is a world heritage site.
1233
01:25:43,398 --> 01:25:46,761
The government of South Korea declared it
1234
01:25:46,761 --> 01:25:48,844
an island of world peace.
1235
01:25:55,898 --> 01:25:58,826
But on this island of peace has been built
1236
01:25:58,826 --> 01:26:03,319
one of the most provocative
military bases in the world,
1237
01:26:03,319 --> 01:26:06,152
less than 400 miles from Shanghai.
1238
01:26:11,508 --> 01:26:14,601
Like Okinawa and the Marshall Islands,
1239
01:26:14,601 --> 01:26:18,232
this is America's
frontline in it's so-called
1240
01:26:18,232 --> 01:26:19,565
"Pivot to Asia."
1241
01:26:22,532 --> 01:26:26,105
Here in once unspoiled Gangjeong Village,
1242
01:26:26,105 --> 01:26:28,870
the South Korean Navy has built a base
1243
01:26:28,870 --> 01:26:31,497
for American aircraft carriers,
1244
01:26:31,497 --> 01:26:34,330
nuclear submarines, and destroyers
1245
01:26:35,400 --> 01:26:38,068
equipped with the Aegis ballistic missile
1246
01:26:38,068 --> 01:26:40,235
aimed at China's defenses.
1247
01:26:44,817 --> 01:26:49,676
China's lifelines to the world
in oil, trade, resources,
1248
01:26:49,676 --> 01:26:52,103
depend on shipping that comes through
1249
01:26:52,103 --> 01:26:53,936
chokepoints like this.
1250
01:26:56,365 --> 01:26:58,417
- The US pivot into the Asian-Pacific
1251
01:26:58,417 --> 01:27:01,341
is really intended to create the ability
1252
01:27:01,341 --> 01:27:04,081
to put a loaded gun to the head of China
1253
01:27:04,081 --> 01:27:06,823
and say, you will do as we say
1254
01:27:06,823 --> 01:27:08,930
otherwise we will be able to restrict.
1255
01:27:08,930 --> 01:27:11,474
We'll be able to shut down, choke off
1256
01:27:11,474 --> 01:27:15,141
your importation of oil
and other resources.
1257
01:27:29,342 --> 01:27:31,580
(chanting)
1258
01:27:31,580 --> 01:27:33,352
- [John Narrating] For
nine years, every day,
1259
01:27:33,352 --> 01:27:36,010
often twice a day, these Catholic priests
1260
01:27:36,010 --> 01:27:38,652
have staged a mass that blocked the gates
1261
01:27:38,652 --> 01:27:42,128
of the new military base on Jeju Island.
1262
01:27:42,128 --> 01:27:44,295
(singing)
1263
01:27:54,831 --> 01:27:57,496
In a country where
political demonstrations
1264
01:27:57,496 --> 01:28:01,897
can be easily banned,
unlike powerful religions,
1265
01:28:01,897 --> 01:28:06,494
the tactic has produced this
spectacle of resistance.
1266
01:28:06,494 --> 01:28:10,327
(man speaking on loudspeaker)
1267
01:28:23,707 --> 01:28:26,596
(speaks foreign language)
1268
01:28:26,596 --> 01:28:29,277
Father Mun Jeong-hyeon has led the fight
1269
01:28:29,277 --> 01:28:31,610
to stop the base being built
1270
01:28:34,364 --> 01:28:38,031
and several times
suffered serious injuries.
1271
01:28:49,710 --> 01:28:51,877
(singing)
1272
01:28:59,575 --> 01:29:02,332
- I sing four songs everyday.
1273
01:29:02,332 --> 01:29:05,175
Before the Mass, during the
Mass, at the end of the Mass
1274
01:29:05,175 --> 01:29:07,342
and the end of the rosary.
1275
01:29:10,096 --> 01:29:13,690
The content of song is very beautiful.
1276
01:29:13,690 --> 01:29:16,940
The writer and composer is the musician
1277
01:29:18,614 --> 01:29:20,031
from this island.
1278
01:29:21,229 --> 01:29:24,734
I love him very much and
he gave me their song
1279
01:29:24,734 --> 01:29:28,234
which I practiced and I became a master
1280
01:29:28,234 --> 01:29:32,384
to sing that song because I
practice everyday. (laughs)
1281
01:29:32,384 --> 01:29:36,378
- [John] You sing it with such passion.
1282
01:29:36,378 --> 01:29:38,545
(singing)
1283
01:29:45,365 --> 01:29:46,767
- Sometimes we just wait.
1284
01:29:46,767 --> 01:29:49,488
Typhoon, typhoon strike!
1285
01:29:49,488 --> 01:29:50,763
- [John] Do you sing then?
1286
01:29:50,763 --> 01:29:53,480
Do you have a Mass when
the typhoons strike?
1287
01:29:53,480 --> 01:29:54,313
- Oh yes.
1288
01:29:56,038 --> 01:29:57,205
No exceptions.
1289
01:29:59,474 --> 01:30:01,965
- [John] What will happen
1290
01:30:01,965 --> 01:30:04,638
if this base becomes operational?
1291
01:30:04,638 --> 01:30:07,041
- They have destroyed the environment,
1292
01:30:07,041 --> 01:30:09,933
they destroy the life of all of us.
1293
01:30:09,933 --> 01:30:14,100
We should be witness of their
oppression and violence.
1294
01:30:15,682 --> 01:30:16,630
- [John] Why do they do it?
1295
01:30:16,630 --> 01:30:21,276
- They'd like to rule the
Pacific area, the whole area.
1296
01:30:21,276 --> 01:30:25,359
They'd like to make China
isolated in this globe.
1297
01:30:27,276 --> 01:30:31,443
The US government want to
be in power of this world.
1298
01:30:32,407 --> 01:30:34,490
(laughs)
1299
01:30:37,175 --> 01:30:40,032
- [John Narrating] Meanwhile,
a Quaker called Mr. Oh
1300
01:30:40,032 --> 01:30:43,491
joins them with his own ritual of protest,
1301
01:30:43,491 --> 01:30:47,158
accompanied by an artist
called Wild Flower.
1302
01:32:32,365 --> 01:32:34,361
- [John Narrating] This
is the center of an empire
1303
01:32:34,361 --> 01:32:36,832
that never speaks its name,
1304
01:32:36,832 --> 01:32:41,295
whose power is represented in
this extraordinary world map
1305
01:32:41,295 --> 01:32:43,545
of American military bases.
1306
01:32:48,599 --> 01:32:51,996
4000 bases in the United States,
1307
01:32:51,996 --> 01:32:55,996
almost 1000 bases spread
across every continent.
1308
01:32:59,994 --> 01:33:01,879
- The archipelago of empire,
1309
01:33:01,879 --> 01:33:04,106
the bases that we have around the world
1310
01:33:04,106 --> 01:33:08,273
hidden in plain sight are the
real territory of our empire
1311
01:33:09,125 --> 01:33:13,935
but at the same time we
maintain independent governments
1312
01:33:13,935 --> 01:33:16,852
in Japan or South Korea or Germany.
1313
01:33:18,165 --> 01:33:20,355
They don't have autonomy when
it comes to foreign policy.
1314
01:33:20,355 --> 01:33:24,195
So it's a very sophisticated
and effective system
1315
01:33:24,195 --> 01:33:27,504
whereby we pat ourselves on the back for
1316
01:33:27,504 --> 01:33:30,587
helping to midwife democracy in Japan
1317
01:33:31,538 --> 01:33:34,624
and Germany and South Korea
and various other places
1318
01:33:34,624 --> 01:33:37,894
while keeping the lid
on in that we don't know
1319
01:33:37,894 --> 01:33:39,723
what these countries would do if they were
1320
01:33:39,723 --> 01:33:41,345
fully independent.
1321
01:33:41,345 --> 01:33:43,079
And the beauty of this system is that
1322
01:33:43,079 --> 01:33:46,249
most people pay no attention to it at all.
1323
01:33:46,249 --> 01:33:47,744
They think it's just a natural occurrence
1324
01:33:47,744 --> 01:33:51,216
to have 50,000 American troops in Japan.
1325
01:33:51,216 --> 01:33:55,041
- There's no country that has
better anti-imperial credit--
1326
01:33:55,041 --> 01:33:57,890
(laughs) cred, then the United States.
1327
01:33:57,890 --> 01:33:59,055
And we are not trying to recreate
1328
01:33:59,055 --> 01:34:01,888
the glories of the British Empire.
1329
01:34:03,121 --> 01:34:05,687
We're arguing that the world is round.
1330
01:34:05,687 --> 01:34:07,604
We have a global policy
1331
01:34:09,138 --> 01:34:12,055
and all nations have global rights.
1332
01:34:13,581 --> 01:34:16,195
- No ocean has ever been dominated
1333
01:34:16,195 --> 01:34:20,362
the way the US dominates the
Pacific, Navy and Air Force.
1334
01:34:21,783 --> 01:34:25,264
They claim that in the
Pearl Harbor headquarters
1335
01:34:25,264 --> 01:34:29,645
of the Pacific Command,
they claim to be responsible
1336
01:34:29,645 --> 01:34:33,586
for 52 percent of the Earth's surface.
1337
01:34:33,586 --> 01:34:36,412
And when you look at their logo,
1338
01:34:36,412 --> 01:34:39,360
it shows an eagle over
the Aleutian Islands
1339
01:34:39,360 --> 01:34:42,056
with one tail coming down
somewhere near Seattle
1340
01:34:42,056 --> 01:34:45,609
and the other coming
down right over Beijing.
1341
01:34:45,609 --> 01:34:48,859
So Beijing looks at a network of bases,
1342
01:34:50,646 --> 01:34:52,732
a real archipelago of empire
1343
01:34:52,732 --> 01:34:55,396
that's been built up since the Korean War.
1344
01:34:55,396 --> 01:34:58,073
- You have had and still have
1345
01:34:58,073 --> 01:35:01,323
an arc of bases that start in Australia
1346
01:35:02,569 --> 01:35:03,666
and go through the Pacific--
1347
01:35:03,666 --> 01:35:04,535
- No.
1348
01:35:04,535 --> 01:35:06,366
We have no bases in Australia.
1349
01:35:06,366 --> 01:35:08,525
- You have Pine Gap, you have Darwin--
1350
01:35:08,525 --> 01:35:09,618
- No.
1351
01:35:09,618 --> 01:35:11,483
- And you have a new facility
in Western Australia.
1352
01:35:11,483 --> 01:35:13,164
- No, to speak precisely,
1353
01:35:13,164 --> 01:35:16,334
we have no military bases in Australia.
1354
01:35:16,334 --> 01:35:20,501
What we do is is operate
with and in Australian bases.
1355
01:35:23,949 --> 01:35:27,782
But we're not in the
basing business nowadays.
1356
01:35:31,875 --> 01:35:34,419
- There's a growing collection
of what are referred to as
1357
01:35:34,419 --> 01:35:35,752
"lilypad bases."
1358
01:35:36,642 --> 01:35:40,873
These are bases that have
typically two, 300 troops,
1359
01:35:40,873 --> 01:35:44,649
no family members, very few amenities,
1360
01:35:44,649 --> 01:35:46,615
and they are often quite secretive.
1361
01:35:46,615 --> 01:35:48,637
They are bases that are
frequently constructed
1362
01:35:48,637 --> 01:35:52,205
within a foreign country's
base to disguise it
1363
01:35:52,205 --> 01:35:56,279
and generally are not
referred to as bases.
1364
01:35:56,279 --> 01:35:58,360
- [John Narrating] Many of
these bases have been set up
1365
01:35:58,360 --> 01:36:02,277
to combat China's worldwide
economic influence.
1366
01:36:05,675 --> 01:36:10,489
From these bases, the United
States operates a secret army
1367
01:36:10,489 --> 01:36:11,906
in 147 countries.
1368
01:36:14,688 --> 01:36:16,114
- If you're gonna be a free country
1369
01:36:16,114 --> 01:36:18,891
rather than give in to every
gangster regime in the world,
1370
01:36:18,891 --> 01:36:20,717
you're gonna have to take a risk.
1371
01:36:20,717 --> 01:36:23,497
'Cause the gangsters,
they want to eliminate
1372
01:36:23,497 --> 01:36:26,751
good people in the world so they can--
1373
01:36:26,751 --> 01:36:30,489
and in China, they want to
dominate all of the Far East,
1374
01:36:30,489 --> 01:36:31,535
they want to dominate.
1375
01:36:31,535 --> 01:36:34,454
Just like Japan wanted
to before World War Two.
1376
01:36:34,454 --> 01:36:37,043
Their goal was to dominate
that part of the world.
1377
01:36:37,043 --> 01:36:41,210
Today, because there's been no
political reform in Beijing,
1378
01:36:42,097 --> 01:36:46,587
these guys want to dominate
a huge chunk of the planet.
1379
01:36:46,587 --> 01:36:47,420
(mumbles)
1380
01:36:47,420 --> 01:36:49,609
- [John Narrating] Andrew
Krepinevich served on
1381
01:36:49,609 --> 01:36:52,143
America's National Defense Panel.
1382
01:36:52,143 --> 01:36:56,189
He's a military strategist
and war planner.
1383
01:36:56,189 --> 01:36:59,796
- You've written that
airstrikes and naval blockades
1384
01:36:59,796 --> 01:37:03,046
have a role to play in punishing China.
1385
01:37:04,995 --> 01:37:08,998
You've described the need for sea mines.
1386
01:37:08,998 --> 01:37:11,626
You've described the
need for special forces,
1387
01:37:11,626 --> 01:37:15,793
US Special Forces, and
missiles placed on islands.
1388
01:37:17,062 --> 01:37:19,774
This sounds like a preparation for war.
1389
01:37:19,774 --> 01:37:22,163
- Our first president, George Washington,
1390
01:37:22,163 --> 01:37:25,180
said that if you want
peace, prepare for war.
1391
01:37:25,180 --> 01:37:28,651
And essentially what the
United States is doing again
1392
01:37:28,651 --> 01:37:32,818
is responding to provocative
behavior on the part of China.
1393
01:37:33,677 --> 01:37:36,292
And just as we did in the Cold War,
1394
01:37:36,292 --> 01:37:40,459
the idea was to have a
position of military strength
1395
01:37:41,983 --> 01:37:43,875
such that your adversaries
were not tempted
1396
01:37:43,875 --> 01:37:46,505
to act in aggressive ways or
1397
01:37:46,505 --> 01:37:49,072
try and employ coercion to get their way.
1398
01:37:49,072 --> 01:37:53,590
- Just last week the US Navy
sent a guided missile destroyer
1399
01:37:53,590 --> 01:37:57,423
into the Spratly Islands,
the South China Sea.
1400
01:37:59,176 --> 01:38:02,136
And what was different
about this, I think,
1401
01:38:02,136 --> 01:38:05,682
was that Chinese fighters scrambled.
1402
01:38:05,682 --> 01:38:08,345
That sounds like an escalator.
1403
01:38:08,345 --> 01:38:10,928
- Well again, from an
American prospective,
1404
01:38:10,928 --> 01:38:12,923
the escalation was that the Chinese
1405
01:38:12,923 --> 01:38:16,166
beginning to militarize these
islands in the first place,
1406
01:38:16,166 --> 01:38:20,392
moving its military capabilities
down into that region,
1407
01:38:20,392 --> 01:38:22,304
engaging in provocative behavior against
1408
01:38:22,304 --> 01:38:26,304
the commercial activities
and military forces of
1409
01:38:27,481 --> 01:38:29,137
other minor countries in the region
1410
01:38:29,137 --> 01:38:31,240
that have claim to those islands.
1411
01:38:31,240 --> 01:38:34,864
So it's a response to
Chinese intimidation rather--
1412
01:38:34,864 --> 01:38:38,701
- Excuse me, how is
commerce being intimidated
1413
01:38:38,701 --> 01:38:40,839
in the South China Sea?
1414
01:38:40,839 --> 01:38:42,529
- There have been no military forces,
1415
01:38:42,529 --> 01:38:44,096
no military bases there.
1416
01:38:44,096 --> 01:38:45,214
The Chinese--
1417
01:38:45,214 --> 01:38:47,346
- Except the United States military base.
1418
01:38:47,346 --> 01:38:48,600
- Not in the South China Sea.
1419
01:38:48,600 --> 01:38:50,209
Not even in the Philippines because
1420
01:38:50,209 --> 01:38:52,678
the United States withdrew
its forces in the Philippines.
1421
01:38:52,678 --> 01:38:55,508
- But the United States is
back in the Philippines.
1422
01:38:55,508 --> 01:38:57,771
- The Philippines and the
United States have announced
1423
01:38:57,771 --> 01:39:00,557
five different locations
scattered all throughout
1424
01:39:00,557 --> 01:39:02,497
the Philippines where US troops will
1425
01:39:02,497 --> 01:39:06,140
be stationed on a rotational basis.
1426
01:39:06,140 --> 01:39:08,633
- [John Narrating] This
threat to China from yet more
1427
01:39:08,633 --> 01:39:12,789
US bases on its doorstep was not an issue
1428
01:39:12,789 --> 01:39:17,036
when an arbitration tribunal
ruled against China's claims
1429
01:39:17,036 --> 01:39:21,203
to the strategic Spratly
Islands in the South China Sea.
1430
01:39:23,168 --> 01:39:26,585
In 2015, the US Navy rehearsed a blockade
1431
01:39:28,210 --> 01:39:30,965
that would cut China's lifelines of oil
1432
01:39:30,965 --> 01:39:33,298
and trade and raw materials.
1433
01:39:34,629 --> 01:39:38,379
The danger of confrontation
grows by the day.
1434
01:39:40,762 --> 01:39:43,932
- The US Navy is on the doorstep of China
1435
01:39:43,932 --> 01:39:46,485
regardless of disputed islands
1436
01:39:46,485 --> 01:39:49,853
and is there with low-draft ships,
1437
01:39:49,853 --> 01:39:51,686
planes, battle groups.
1438
01:39:52,589 --> 01:39:54,949
It's right on the doorsteps.
1439
01:39:54,949 --> 01:39:56,281
What of Chinese ships?
1440
01:39:56,281 --> 01:40:00,265
What if the equivalent was off California?
1441
01:40:00,265 --> 01:40:04,224
- Well John, we ask ourselves
that question regularly.
1442
01:40:04,224 --> 01:40:08,391
And it's important to put
yourself in the other guy's shoes.
1443
01:40:09,406 --> 01:40:10,785
So look.
1444
01:40:10,785 --> 01:40:14,452
We don't operate in the
Pacific in an effort
1445
01:40:16,399 --> 01:40:21,133
to scare China, to contain
China, to backfoot China.
1446
01:40:21,133 --> 01:40:24,505
Our operations and our presence,
1447
01:40:24,505 --> 01:40:28,822
first of all, is warmly
welcomed by the vast majority
1448
01:40:28,822 --> 01:40:32,068
of the coastal states, but secondly,
1449
01:40:32,068 --> 01:40:34,627
is fully accepted by the Chinese.
1450
01:40:34,627 --> 01:40:35,914
Time after time--
1451
01:40:35,914 --> 01:40:38,887
- Excuse me, is it fully accepted?
1452
01:40:38,887 --> 01:40:41,309
- Yes, by their words.
1453
01:40:41,309 --> 01:40:42,676
The Chinese leaders--
1454
01:40:42,676 --> 01:40:46,436
- [John] My impression
is that they're scared.
1455
01:40:46,436 --> 01:40:49,487
- [John Narrating] And this
is what they're scared of.
1456
01:40:49,487 --> 01:40:52,487
A noose of bases right around China.
1457
01:40:57,305 --> 01:41:00,305
Missiles, bombers, drones, warships.
1458
01:41:02,355 --> 01:41:04,105
A provocation of war.
1459
01:41:07,343 --> 01:41:11,910
- Today, I state clearly
and with conviction.
1460
01:41:11,910 --> 01:41:15,417
America's commitment to
seek the peace and security
1461
01:41:15,417 --> 01:41:17,896
of a world without nuclear weapons.
1462
01:41:17,896 --> 01:41:20,146
(cheering)
1463
01:41:21,634 --> 01:41:23,311
- [John Narrating] Under Obama,
1464
01:41:23,311 --> 01:41:25,542
nuclear warhead spending has risen higher
1465
01:41:25,542 --> 01:41:30,425
than under any president
since the end of the Cold War.
1466
01:41:30,425 --> 01:41:33,074
- It's all a magician's show because
1467
01:41:33,074 --> 01:41:36,418
at the same time that Obama
is talking about that,
1468
01:41:36,418 --> 01:41:38,447
not only is he spending a trillion dollars
1469
01:41:38,447 --> 01:41:41,184
to modernize US nuclear forces,
1470
01:41:41,184 --> 01:41:43,454
but he's deploying these
missile defense systems
1471
01:41:43,454 --> 01:41:45,385
to encircle Russia and China,
1472
01:41:45,385 --> 01:41:47,701
which makes it impossible to
1473
01:41:47,701 --> 01:41:50,337
get rid of nuclear
weapons in that climate.
1474
01:41:50,337 --> 01:41:53,391
- Everybody wants to
look like they're tough.
1475
01:41:53,391 --> 01:41:54,770
See, I gotta be tough.
1476
01:41:54,770 --> 01:41:57,581
I'm not afraid of doing anything military.
1477
01:41:57,581 --> 01:41:58,883
I'm not afraid of threatening.
1478
01:41:58,883 --> 01:42:01,340
I'm a hairy-chested gorilla.
1479
01:42:01,340 --> 01:42:05,040
And you don't want to
look like you're weak,
1480
01:42:05,040 --> 01:42:09,207
so what you do is you talk
more and more aggressively
1481
01:42:10,622 --> 01:42:13,596
and if you don't want to do it yourself,
1482
01:42:13,596 --> 01:42:17,476
because you maybe think it
doesn't look very presidential,
1483
01:42:17,476 --> 01:42:20,976
you let somebody under you do the talking.
1484
01:42:23,959 --> 01:42:25,703
And the United States has
gotten into a situation
1485
01:42:25,703 --> 01:42:29,536
where there's a lot of
military saber-rattling
1486
01:42:30,620 --> 01:42:34,708
and it's really being
orchestrated from the top.
1487
01:42:34,708 --> 01:42:38,875
- Yeah, that seems incredibly
dangerous, all of this.
1488
01:42:39,886 --> 01:42:43,523
- That's an understatement,
I think, but I agree.
1489
01:42:43,523 --> 01:42:45,923
- When you routinely plan for mass murder,
1490
01:42:45,923 --> 01:42:47,697
you become conditioned to it.
1491
01:42:47,697 --> 01:42:49,052
That's what this is.
1492
01:42:49,052 --> 01:42:50,155
We accept it.
1493
01:42:50,155 --> 01:42:51,993
Oh yeah, we have nuclear weapons.
1494
01:42:51,993 --> 01:42:54,761
- The Defense Secretary has just announced
1495
01:42:54,761 --> 01:42:58,604
that there will be
warships and special forces
1496
01:42:58,604 --> 01:43:01,391
and planes sent to the Philippines
1497
01:43:01,391 --> 01:43:04,292
and the Wall Street Journal
has described this as
1498
01:43:04,292 --> 01:43:08,459
"the vanguard of a major US
presence in Southeast Asia."
1499
01:43:10,496 --> 01:43:11,329
That sounds like--
1500
01:43:11,329 --> 01:43:13,240
- Where does this end?
1501
01:43:13,240 --> 01:43:14,669
What's the purpose?
1502
01:43:14,669 --> 01:43:17,163
I mean, where are we
going to stop this process
1503
01:43:17,163 --> 01:43:19,771
before it starts a war?
1504
01:43:19,771 --> 01:43:22,240
And then if the war starts,
where does that end?
1505
01:43:22,240 --> 01:43:25,157
♪ America, America ♪
1506
01:43:29,274 --> 01:43:32,857
♪ God shed his grace on me ♪
1507
01:43:37,501 --> 01:43:41,668
♪ And crown thy good with brotherhood ♪
1508
01:43:45,405 --> 01:43:48,905
♪ From sea to shining sea ♪
1509
01:43:58,248 --> 01:44:00,665
(wind howls)
1510
01:44:07,889 --> 01:44:10,497
The scientific studies that
I teach by the scientists
1511
01:44:10,497 --> 01:44:12,397
that predict that the Earth can be made
1512
01:44:12,397 --> 01:44:14,662
essentially uninhabitable
from nuclear war,
1513
01:44:14,662 --> 01:44:17,224
the scientists have been begging
the Obama administration--
1514
01:44:17,224 --> 01:44:18,623
well, they wouldn't say begging.
1515
01:44:18,623 --> 01:44:20,410
But they have made multiple requests
1516
01:44:20,410 --> 01:44:22,304
to meet with them and
discuss these predictions
1517
01:44:22,304 --> 01:44:23,508
because they're peer-reviewed studies
1518
01:44:23,508 --> 01:44:26,441
and they've been turned
down over and over again.
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01:44:26,441 --> 01:44:27,989
They've been peripherally told that,
1520
01:44:27,989 --> 01:44:30,295
well we don't think the long-term
1521
01:44:30,295 --> 01:44:32,489
environmental consequences of nuclear war
1522
01:44:32,489 --> 01:44:33,945
are all that important
if the immediate effects
1523
01:44:33,945 --> 01:44:36,303
of nuclear war don't stop it.
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01:44:36,303 --> 01:44:38,722
That the long-term environmental
consequences of nuclear war
1525
01:44:38,722 --> 01:44:41,979
are liable to wipe out the human race.
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01:44:41,979 --> 01:44:43,555
- [John] In one exchange,
1527
01:44:43,555 --> 01:44:47,661
nuclear exchange between the US and China,
1528
01:44:47,661 --> 01:44:50,244
what could be the consequences?
1529
01:44:51,179 --> 01:44:52,501
- Well let me just give you an example
1530
01:44:52,501 --> 01:44:55,350
of what one Chinese four
or five megaton warhead
1531
01:44:55,350 --> 01:44:59,895
would do to a city in the
United States if it got through.
1532
01:44:59,895 --> 01:45:02,273
The detonation of that weapon over a city
1533
01:45:02,273 --> 01:45:03,973
would instantly ignite about
1534
01:45:03,973 --> 01:45:06,640
six or 700 square miles on fire.
1535
01:45:07,735 --> 01:45:09,703
And within 20 to 30 minutes,
1536
01:45:09,703 --> 01:45:11,134
all of those fires would coalesce
1537
01:45:11,134 --> 01:45:13,472
into a single gigantic firestorm.
1538
01:45:13,472 --> 01:45:14,686
There would be no escape from it.
1539
01:45:14,686 --> 01:45:17,170
So all the people there would perish.
1540
01:45:17,170 --> 01:45:18,458
So the US, with say,
1541
01:45:18,458 --> 01:45:22,835
hundreds of nuclear
weapons on Chinese cities.
1542
01:45:22,835 --> 01:45:25,335
When you combine all the smoke
1543
01:45:26,313 --> 01:45:27,718
from these nuclear weapons detonating,
1544
01:45:27,718 --> 01:45:30,239
it actually creates
millions of tons of smoke.
1545
01:45:30,239 --> 01:45:33,629
Black carbon smoke that'll
rise above cloud level
1546
01:45:33,629 --> 01:45:35,814
into the stratosphere,
it's heated by the sun,
1547
01:45:35,814 --> 01:45:37,557
it acts like a solar collector.
1548
01:45:37,557 --> 01:45:38,951
And that smoke, because of that,
1549
01:45:38,951 --> 01:45:42,138
will stay there for 10 years or longer.
1550
01:45:42,138 --> 01:45:43,607
And what the smoke does is it blocks
1551
01:45:43,607 --> 01:45:46,917
warming sunlight from reaching
the surface of the earth
1552
01:45:46,917 --> 01:45:50,211
and it becomes so cold in a
matter of just a couple of weeks
1553
01:45:50,211 --> 01:45:52,877
that the temperature
will fall below freezing
1554
01:45:52,877 --> 01:45:55,627
every day for one to three years.
1555
01:45:58,117 --> 01:46:00,461
And it will become too
cold to grow food crops
1556
01:46:00,461 --> 01:46:02,967
for at least 10 years or longer.
1557
01:46:02,967 --> 01:46:05,384
(wind howls)
1558
01:46:13,248 --> 01:46:15,145
- I mean, there's a total disconnect
1559
01:46:15,145 --> 01:46:16,896
with the changing world.
1560
01:46:16,896 --> 01:46:21,417
You have a giant rising
power, in this case, China.
1561
01:46:21,417 --> 01:46:23,419
Why would you expect a giant rising power
1562
01:46:23,419 --> 01:46:26,756
to not want to have more
control over its destiny?
1563
01:46:26,756 --> 01:46:28,298
What we should be doing in my view
1564
01:46:28,298 --> 01:46:32,465
is trying to cultivate a sense
of friendship and cooperation
1565
01:46:33,493 --> 01:46:35,495
and we can have our differences with them.
1566
01:46:35,495 --> 01:46:36,825
If we think they're
doing something in trade
1567
01:46:36,825 --> 01:46:39,987
that we don't like, let's
have it out with them.
1568
01:46:39,987 --> 01:46:41,403
But this saber-rattling is
1569
01:46:41,403 --> 01:46:43,321
the worst thing we can possibly do.
1570
01:46:43,321 --> 01:46:45,571
(cheering)
1571
01:46:48,770 --> 01:46:51,770
- It is time to show the whole world
1572
01:46:53,481 --> 01:46:55,506
that America is back.
1573
01:46:55,506 --> 01:46:59,673
Bigger, and better, and
stronger than ever before.
1574
01:47:02,283 --> 01:47:04,950
We don't have victories anymore.
1575
01:47:06,081 --> 01:47:08,507
We used to have victories,
but we don't have 'em.
1576
01:47:08,507 --> 01:47:12,340
When was the last time
anybody saw us beating,
1577
01:47:13,417 --> 01:47:14,750
let's say China?
1578
01:47:15,830 --> 01:47:18,917
In a trade deal, they kill us.
1579
01:47:18,917 --> 01:47:21,940
We can't continue to allow China
1580
01:47:21,940 --> 01:47:24,683
to rape our country, and
that's what they're doing.
1581
01:47:24,683 --> 01:47:28,623
It's the greatest theft in
the history of the world.
1582
01:47:28,623 --> 01:47:32,278
(audience cheers)
1583
01:47:32,278 --> 01:47:34,571
- [John Narrating] The new
president, Donald Trump,
1584
01:47:34,571 --> 01:47:36,654
has a problem with China.
1585
01:47:37,903 --> 01:47:39,875
The urgent question now is,
1586
01:47:39,875 --> 01:47:43,075
will Trump continue with the provocations
1587
01:47:43,075 --> 01:47:47,242
revealed in this film and take
us all to the edge of war?
1588
01:47:50,907 --> 01:47:54,171
- There never have been two countries
1589
01:47:54,171 --> 01:47:56,404
more interdependent on each other
1590
01:47:56,404 --> 01:47:59,154
than China and the US in history.
1591
01:48:01,046 --> 01:48:02,795
And China is the largest trading nation
1592
01:48:02,795 --> 01:48:05,219
in the world and in history.
1593
01:48:05,219 --> 01:48:08,827
So China's economy and their
societies, their lives,
1594
01:48:08,827 --> 01:48:11,410
are linked to the entire world.
1595
01:48:12,736 --> 01:48:15,365
Including America and the West
and all the other countries.
1596
01:48:15,365 --> 01:48:17,858
So I think interdependence
between these two countries
1597
01:48:17,858 --> 01:48:21,585
and among all the nations of the world,
1598
01:48:21,585 --> 01:48:23,547
speak to peace.
1599
01:48:23,547 --> 01:48:26,130
(gentle music)
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01:48:54,524 --> 01:48:56,422
- [John Narrating] We don't
have to accept the word
1601
01:48:56,422 --> 01:49:00,163
of those who conjure up
threats and false enemies
1602
01:49:00,163 --> 01:49:03,580
to justify the business and profit of war
1603
01:49:04,645 --> 01:49:08,514
if we recognize there
is another superpower,
1604
01:49:08,514 --> 01:49:10,424
and that's us.
1605
01:49:10,424 --> 01:49:14,340
Ordinary people everywhere,
like the people of Okinawa,
1606
01:49:14,340 --> 01:49:17,492
Jeju Island, the Marshall Islands,
1607
01:49:17,492 --> 01:49:19,575
China, the United States.
1608
01:49:20,764 --> 01:49:24,931
By speaking out, they deliver
a warning to all of us.
1609
01:49:26,551 --> 01:49:29,384
Can we really afford to be silent?
1610
01:49:42,048 --> 01:49:45,444
♪ We'll meet again ♪
1611
01:49:45,444 --> 01:49:49,611
♪ Don't know where, don't know when ♪
1612
01:49:52,037 --> 01:49:55,193
♪ But I know we'll meet again ♪
1613
01:49:55,193 --> 01:49:57,943
♪ Some sunny day ♪
1614
01:50:01,996 --> 01:50:05,722
♪ Keep smiling through ♪
1615
01:50:05,722 --> 01:50:09,222
♪ Just like you always do ♪
1616
01:50:11,568 --> 01:50:15,735
♪ 'Til the blue skies
drive the dark clouds ♪
1617
01:50:16,584 --> 01:50:18,834
♪ Far away ♪
1618
01:50:20,821 --> 01:50:24,467
♪ So will you please say hello ♪
1619
01:50:24,467 --> 01:50:27,115
♪ To the folks that I know ♪
1620
01:50:27,115 --> 01:50:30,782
♪ Tell them I won't be long ♪
1621
01:50:32,428 --> 01:50:34,854
♪ They'll be happy to know ♪
1622
01:50:34,854 --> 01:50:38,210
♪ That as you saw me go ♪
1623
01:50:38,210 --> 01:50:41,710
♪ I was singing this song ♪
1624
01:50:44,098 --> 01:50:47,015
♪ We'll meet again ♪
1625
01:50:48,144 --> 01:50:50,802
♪ Don't know where ♪
1626
01:50:50,802 --> 01:50:54,119
♪ Don't know when ♪
1627
01:50:54,119 --> 01:50:58,109
♪ But I know we'll meet again ♪
1628
01:50:58,109 --> 01:51:00,859
♪ Some sunny day ♪
1629
01:51:05,655 --> 01:51:09,312
♪ We'll meet again ♪
1630
01:51:09,312 --> 01:51:11,799
♪ Don't know where ♪
1631
01:51:11,799 --> 01:51:14,916
♪ Don't know when ♪
1632
01:51:14,916 --> 01:51:18,900
♪ But I know we'll meet again ♪
1633
01:51:18,900 --> 01:51:21,650
♪ Some sunny day ♪
1634
01:51:26,157 --> 01:51:30,177
♪ Keep smiling through ♪
1635
01:51:30,177 --> 01:51:33,677
♪ Just like you always do ♪
1636
01:51:35,989 --> 01:51:40,156
♪ 'Til the blue skies drive
the dark clouds far away ♪
1637
01:51:45,379 --> 01:51:49,014
♪ So will you please say hello ♪
1638
01:51:49,014 --> 01:51:51,752
♪ To the folks that I know ♪
1639
01:51:51,752 --> 01:51:55,419
♪ Tell them I won't be long ♪
1640
01:51:56,805 --> 01:51:59,356
♪ They'll be happy to know ♪
1641
01:51:59,356 --> 01:52:02,031
♪ That as you saw me go ♪
1642
01:52:02,031 --> 01:52:05,531
♪ I was singing this song ♪
1643
01:52:07,702 --> 01:52:10,619
♪ We'll meet again ♪
1644
01:52:11,776 --> 01:52:14,199
♪ Don't know where ♪
1645
01:52:14,199 --> 01:52:17,481
♪ Don't know when ♪
1646
01:52:17,481 --> 01:52:21,314
♪ But I know we'll meet again ♪
1647
01:52:22,356 --> 01:52:25,106
♪ Some sunny day ♪
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