Chinese language President Xi Jinping, who will journey to Belgrade tonight, criticised NATO for its “blatant” bombing of the Chinese language embassy in Yugoslavia in 1999, and warned that Beijing won’t let “such a tragic historical past repeat itself”.
Xi made this warning within the Serbian day by day Politika, hours earlier than his arrival in Belgrade, the following cease on his first European tour since Covid, after France.
His go to coincides with the twenty fifth anniversary of the NATO bombing that killed three folks and was attributed to a CIA mapping error.
In 1999, the Atlantic Alliance performed a bombing marketing campaign towards Serb targets in the course of the Kosovo struggle.
“Twenty-five years in the past in the present day, NATO flagrantly bombed the Chinese language embassy in Yugoslavia, killing three Chinese language journalists,” Xi famous in his textual content in Politika.
“We should always remember this. The Chinese language folks love peace, however we are going to by no means enable such a tragic historical past to repeat itself,” he warned.
Xi will arrive in Belgrade on Tuesday night after a state go to to France, the place he has mentioned along with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, problems with the struggle in Ukraine and international commerce imbalances.
His subsequent stops, in Serbia and Hungary, are in two nations thought-about extra beneficial to Russia, which launched the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.