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US military, corporate elite want endless wars: Activist

The US military and corporate elite want war, war, and more war to since war serves their interests, American political analyst says.

The United States’ military and corporate elite want war, war, and more war to since war serves their interests, an American political commentator and activist says.

“The history of the United States in the South China Sea in East Asia is an aggressive one, going back to 1898, when the United States invaded the Philippines and murdered a million people there, something that’s hidden in US history books,” Bill Dores said on Friday during a phone interview with Press TV.

“In 1900, US Marines burned down the city of Beijing, the capital of China,” said Dores, a writer and activist associated with the International Action Center, which is building broad-based grassroots coalitions to oppose to US wars abroad.

US Army depiction of the assault on Beijing's Southeast Corner Tower near Dongbianmen on August 14, 1900. (Wikipedia)

“The United States waged wars after war, Korea, Vietnam, aggressive bloody wars, [in] which so many millions died and tens of thousands US citizens [died],”he added.

“It’s distressing that our government is once again acting in a provocative way in this part of the world,” the activist lamented.

“United States Seventh Fleet [of] US military has no business in that part of the world,” he stated.

Dores made the remarks when he was asked to comment on a statement by the Chinese Foreign Ministry which says that the United States is attempting to create “chaos” in the South China Sea.

The US 7th Fleet command ship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19), right, the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Tippecanoe (T-AO 199), and the guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem (DDG 63) conduct an underway replenishment while underway in the Pacific Ocean. (File photo)

On Thursday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry urged Washington to "refrain from all the provocative words and deeds."

"If the major powerhouse of world economic growth is thrown into chaos, will that serve the interests of the American side?" Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Thursday.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying

Dores said that “our interests are in good relations, economic relations, trade with China, with all the countries of the world, but the interests of the corporate elite and the Pentagon and corporate elite are in war, war, and more war.”

“And aim of this is to maintain the position of Wall Street banks at the center of the world economy, which is being rapidly eroded,” the analyst noted.

US officials accuse Beijing of undergoing a massive “land reclamation” program and staking territorial claims on artificial islands it is building in the South China Sea.

Washington does not recognize China’s sovereignty in the disputed areas and is weighing sending surveillance aircraft and warships to test Beijing’s territorial claims.

US President Barack Obama (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (middle) arrive at the APEC Summit on November 11, 2014 in Beijing, China.

A Chinese state-owned newspaper has warned that “a US-China war is inevitable in the South China Sea,” unless Washington stops demanding Beijing halt its construction projects there.

“The intensity of the conflict will be higher than what people usually think of as ‘friction’,” The Global Times, an influential newspaper owned by the ruling Communist Party’s official newspaper The People’s Daily, said in an editorial Monday.

Beijing says it is determined to safeguard its sovereignty and territorial integrity in the South China Sea.

China’s territorial claims in the region overlap with those of Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam and Taiwan, and more specifically the Philippines.

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