"Chinese Video Urges War With U.S."

China's Communist Party-controlled media stepped up a war of words with the United States recently urging an escalation of the ongoing trade dispute into a full-scale conflict.

"China must be prepared to fight a protracted war," states a four-minute, anti-American video posted five days ago on a Chinese video-sharing service.

"Trump's ‘outrageous and selfish' strategy might work for smaller countries, but it will never work for China," the video warns. "To quote a well-written article in the Global Times: If the Americans want to fight, we will fight them until the end! And we will fight until the Pacific Ocean splits into two!" Global Times is the Communist Party of China's nationalistic and anti-U.S. news outlet.

In response the video urges the Chinese government to impose sanctions on American companies doing business in China, including Boeing, Walmart, GE, Ford, McDonald's, KFC, Apple, and U.S. airlines.

China also should sell its large holdings of U.S. Treasury bonds and ban the export of rare earth metals.

Further, the video urges cutting off Chinese industries controlled by U.S. companies in China like the fast-food company Yum China and Coca-Cola...

Guo Wengui, a dissident Chinese billionaire, said broadcast of the warlike video appears to be part of a national propaganda campaign in China by the Communist Party.

"Basically it is video meant to incite the emotions and a psychological [warfare] campaign designed to inspire people's loyalty and foment nationalism," Guo said in an interview.

"This is a standard ploy used by the Communist Party since Mao Zedong," he added.

Guo said such a campaign could be used by Chinese leaders who may be creating the conditions for launching a military attack on Taiwan, conducting a further crackdown on freedoms in Hong Kong or as a lead up to a clash with U.S. military forces in the disputed South China Sea.

Guo urged the White House National Security Council, Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies to closely study the video for clues to future Chinese actions.

By permitting the release of video, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders are "trying to incite people to get behind the CCP and to lay out a plan for national warfare against the U.S.," Guo said.

"This is not a joke from the CCP because they are really embedding a kind of a message in this video to prepare to confront the U.S.," he said.