Chinese language chief Xi Jinping has been in France since Sunday the place he met with French President Emmanuel Macron to speak about vary of matters however particularly the Ukraine warfare and commerce between China and the European Union.
However on Tuesday he traveled to Serbia, and importantly the journey falls exactly on the twenty fifth anniversary of the bombing of the Chinese language Embassy in Belgrade, which got here within the midst of NATO’s bombing of the Serbs of Yugoslavia through the 1999 Kosovo warfare.
Simply forward of arriving within the Serbian capital, Xi wrote a letter which has been revealed by the Serbian outlet Politika. In it he lambasted NATO and by extension United States for its historic warfare crime..
“Twenty-five years in the past at this time, NATO flagrantly bombed the Chinese language Embassy in Yugoslavia, killing three Chinese language journalists,” Xi’s phrases launched.
It occurred on Might 7, 1999 throughout US-NATO 78-day bombing marketing campaign over Yugoslavia. That is when 5 US Joint Direct Assault Munition guided bombs hit scored a direct hit on the Chinese language embassy in Belgrade, killing the journalists.
The US was adamant that it was inadvertent and unintentional, and ultimately then President Clinton issued a proper apology to the Chinese language authorities. It had marked the primary time in all of recent historical past {that a} sovereign authorities’s navy attacked one other nation’s embassy. It had not even occurred as soon as throughout World Wars I and II.
“This we should always always remember. The Chinese language individuals cherish peace, however we are going to by no means permit such tragic historical past to repeat itself,” Xi wrote.
“The Chinese language-Serbian friendship, solid with the blood of our compatriots, will keep within the shared reminiscence of the Chinese language and Serbian peoples,” he continued.
His emphasis on the road “always remember” is attention-grabbing given it’s a widespread line utilized by Individuals in the case of remembering the 9/11 terror assaults, in addition to within the West in the case of Holocaust remembrance days.
To assessment of what we have featured in a earlier publish referred to as “America’s Benevolent Bombing of Serbia,” President Invoice Clinton commenced bombing Belgrade within the title of human rights, justice, and ethnic tolerance. Roughly 1,500 Serb civilians had been killed by NATO bombing in one of many largest sham morality performs of the trendy period.
As British professor Philip Hammond has famous, the 78-day bombing marketing campaign “was not a purely navy operation: NATO additionally destroyed what it referred to as ‘dual-use’ targets, comparable to factories, metropolis bridges, and even the principle tv constructing in downtown Belgrade, in an try and terrorise the nation into give up.”
Clinton’s unprovoked assault on Serbia, supposed to assist ethnic Albanians seize management of Kosovo, set a precedent for “humanitarian” warring that was invoked by supporters of George W. Bush’s unprovoked assault on Iraq, Barack Obama’s bombing of Libya, and Donald Trump’s bombing of Syria.
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