1. NATO had a hard time explaining away the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. 2. Although we were a little nervous when America accidentally bombed that Chinese embassy. 3. And that was before the Chinese embassy strike. 4. Black flags flew from the Bank of China building and lines of weeping mourners filed past a monument to democracy in front of the de facto Chinese embassy. 5. A number of the protesters carried pictures of the two journalists killed in the Chinese embassy bombing. 6. A spokesman for the Chinese embassy here did not return a call. 7. After mistakenly blowing up the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, allied warplanes avoided all targets in the Yugoslav capital for four days. 8. All of which suggests that a draft U.N. resolution could still be forthcoming within a fortnight, as diplomats had hoped before the Chinese embassy uproar. 9. But by then Zhu had lost face, and the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade a few weeks later froze any negotiations. 10. But tensions only grew worse with the accidental bombing by NATO of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and the renewed tensions between China and Taiwan. |
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