In its annual report to the US Congress on China’s military developments, the Pentagon claims China’s military “has undergone a sweeping overhaul, expanding the capacity of its bombers to strike US and allied forces and military bases in the western Pacific Ocean, including the US island territory of Guam.”

The Pentagon further claims that the overhaul has improved the Chinese military’s ability “to mount air and naval attacks on Taiwan, aiming to deter the island from pursuing independence and eroding Taiwan’s historical advantages in the Taiwan Strait.”

The current confrontational approach is unsurprising. If anything, it appears the Pentagon has become callous from years of lies from the media and politicians of dishonorable nature in Washington. 

China’s Defense Ministry has been quick to react, of course. In a statement, the ministry has expressed “resolute opposition to this and has lodged stern representations with the US side.” It has also maintained that “the Chinese military’s reform, weapons development, and defensive capabilities are just and reasonable” and that “the criticism in the US report is pure guesswork.”

Where this leaves us remains to be seen, but it is hard to imagine that the Chinese armed forces would actually want to strike US bases and allied forces in the Pacific region. Their pro forma policy is the opposite. They are on the path of peaceful development; pursue a defensive strategy; are a contributor to world peace, and protect the global order, with no intention to harm mutual trust between Beijing and Washington.

The truth is out there, and it's much more interesting than the Pentagon’s myth and conscience-soothing fallacies.

The Pentagon’s new “guesswork” is a vain search for a useless supremacy at the cost of destabilizing the entire Pacific region. This is because there is still plenty of appetite for a new war on Capitol Hill. There’s so much eagerness in expanding America’s endless wars that no one wants to put down on paper what the limits of it will be. 

The "pivot to Asia" hoodlums seem eternally in search of yet more wars to launch. Pointing to Russia, China, Iran and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), for instance, Marine Corps Commandant General Robert Neller recently told US troops in Norway to expect a “bigass fight” in the future, adding, “I hope I’m wrong, but there’s a war coming.”  

Also, National Security Adviser Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster did suggest recently that the possibility of a war (conceivably nuclear in nature) with the DPRK is “increasing every day.”  

It’s not hard to see why. The Pentagon is quietly transforming its empire of over 1,000 military installations to maintain global dominance, including dozens of bases in the Far East, in every Persian Gulf country save Iran, and in Central Asian countries. 

American leaders are hoping these bases will entrench their influence and keep regional countries within a US orbit at a time when some are asserting their independence and aligning with Russia and China.

Experience tells us, however, that these military bases only guarantee regional volatility, generating public ire and anti-American sentiments. Experience also tells us that the manufactured “threat” from China is intended to militarize the Pacific region and whet America’s appetite for destruction. It will only heighten tensions between neighbors and could even lead to a new arms race and conflict.

After all, how would the US respond if Russia or China were to build military bases in the Gulf of Mexico or the Caribbean?

Unlike China, the so-called exceptional United States is busy carrying out clandestine wars in more than half the nations on the planet.

According to Lieutenant Colonel Robert Bockholt, a public affairs officer with US Special Operations Command, American forces are conducting black ops and shadow wars in 133 countries. The country’s forces are carrying out missions ranging from bombing runs to kill and capture raids to militant training exercises, regime-change wars, coups and Psy-ops, with unforeseen blowbacks and catastrophic consequences for local populations.

Much of the global violence and volatility today is traced back to these imperial adventures and shadow ops. And no, they have nothing to do with China or Russia. The drug-related violence sweeping Latin America or the territorial disputes and wars across the African continent are also tied to the US role in militarizing these unfortunate regions. 

Despite their massive scale and scope, these not-so-secret military operations, air and drone wars are unknown to most people. The vast majority of missions remain completely in the shadows and are never subjected to meaningful examination or international accountability, which only increases the chances of yet even more conflicts. There is no question that in between this destructive machine is also an innovative profit center for the bankrupt American arms industry and the cult of air power.

It is time to put this “American nightmare” into focus. The international civil society has had enough of the “lone ranger’s” protracted adventures and bellicosity.

The caliphate of Trump is a mile wide and an inch deep. It should never be allowed to fool the world into believing that China has a fetish for bombers. Independent media outlets should publish their findings and reports too. After all, these are only some of the overwhelming facts that have managed to make it into the news and onto the record.