Sixty percent of US naval power is now stationed around China, while US and allied military bases surrounding China prepare for a war to “contain” China’s peaceful economic rise. In the meantime, tensions on the Korean Peninsula are escalating.

Rising Danger of War in Asia Pacific: U.S. v. China and North Korea?

Veterans for Peace  August 27, 2023 
Part of the Veterans For Peace 2023 Online Convention

Numerous US intelligence analysts, diplomats, officials, and military generals have described China as an existential threat, and the 2022 National Defense Strategy, or NDS, places a primary focus on the need to “sustain and strengthen U.S. deterrence against China.” Sixty percent of US naval power is now stationed around China, while US and allied military bases surrounding China prepare for a war to “contain” China’s peaceful economic rise. In the meantime, tensions on the Korean Peninsula are escalating.

The “Washington Declaration” from the Biden-Yoon summit in April openly threatened that the US “will further enhance the regular visibility of strategic assets to the Korean Peninsula,” including an “upcoming visit of a US nuclear ballistic missile submarine to the ROK.” What are the risks of war, even nuclear war, as US elites push our world towards a global war in Asia?

Four experts will discuss the situation and the dangers involved. Moderator: Ann Wright Panelists: K.J. Noh, Simone Chun, Peter Kuznick