Tom Paine 1949
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Diplomats from the Chinese Embassy in Serbia and Serbian government officials held a commemorative event in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, today — the 23rd anniversary of the 1999 NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy to the former Yugoslavia. Though the U.S. maintains this (one and only CIA-organized) bombing was “an accident,” I believe it was intentional and launched by the CIA to warn China not to interfere with NATO operations. I also suspect the Chinese were providing Serbian forces access to Chinese embassy satellite communications.
The 78-day U.S. / NATO bombing campaign in Yugoslavia flew over 38,000 combat missions, killing at least 1500 people. It took the lives of over 500 innocent refugees and civilians and three Chinese journalists, while destroying the bridges and civilian infrastructure of Belgrade. Subsequent NATO operations in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan make it clear this organization is NOT merely “defensive” as the West likes to claim.
Here are two relevant articles: The first is the famous original British Guardian report arguing the attack against the Chinese Embassy in Serbia was intentional; the second reprints a new South China Morning Post article showing the connection “official China” still makes between these earlier NATO attacks and the present bloody war in Ukraine, launched by V. Putin.
One needn’t agree with everything in these articles to grasp why China’s elites and society are both highly suspicious of NATO and especially of U.S. “forward positioning” of military bases and weapons in its immediate region.
www.theguardian.com
The 78-day U.S. / NATO bombing campaign in Yugoslavia flew over 38,000 combat missions, killing at least 1500 people. It took the lives of over 500 innocent refugees and civilians and three Chinese journalists, while destroying the bridges and civilian infrastructure of Belgrade. Subsequent NATO operations in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan make it clear this organization is NOT merely “defensive” as the West likes to claim.
Here are two relevant articles: The first is the famous original British Guardian report arguing the attack against the Chinese Embassy in Serbia was intentional; the second reprints a new South China Morning Post article showing the connection “official China” still makes between these earlier NATO attacks and the present bloody war in Ukraine, launched by V. Putin.
One needn’t agree with everything in these articles to grasp why China’s elites and society are both highly suspicious of NATO and especially of U.S. “forward positioning” of military bases and weapons in its immediate region.
Truth behind America's raid on Belgrade
On May 7 this year the B2 - at $44 billion the world's most expensive plane - took off from Whiteman air force base in Missouri, its sleek black belly loaded with missiles, destined for Belgrade. It flew high across the Atlantic and Western Europe before opening its bomb doors over the Adriatic...
www.theguardian.com
