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In 1999, NATO's air campaign over Yugoslavia mistakenly bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade with B-2 Spirit stealth bombers, killing three Chinese journalists and sparking widespread protests in China. ....
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The Chinese government led by Jiang Zemin thought the B-2 stealth bomber attack was part of an “even greater plot” instigated by the United States. ....
In the past couple of weeks, you haven’t been able to swing a dead cat without hitting some retired general complaining about the war in Iraq, and how that nation and its leader represented no imminent threat to America or the globe. One of the more prominent members of the hindsight is 20/20 crowd is former Clinton CENTCOM commander Gen. Anthony Zinni who has now conspicuously stated that he never saw any proof that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction. Of course, this has been debunked by the recent revelations of a February 29, 2000 briefing by Zinni to Congress wherein the general made it quite clear that “Iraq remains the most significant near-term threat to U.S. interests in the Arabian Gulf region” stating quite unequivocally that Iraq either possessed or was pursuing WMD.Yet, another bizarre oddity concerning the media’s acceptance of Zinni’s current position is the revelation that in the year 2000, Zinni actually briefed senior Clinton administration officia ....
If the most imaginative fiction writer had set about writing ascript for the U.S.-China relationship from June 1998 until June1999, he or she would have had to stretch to dream up what hasactually happened. ....