Chapter 144 Grief and Indignation, the Embassy in Yugoslavia was bombed

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Yang Wenbin also read the approval documents, asked the director of the political department, the chief of staff of the headquarters, and the deputy head in charge of management to sign them, and brought out the files of the top 40 cadet seedlings with good academic performance from the military affairs unit of the headquarters.

On this day, he was reviewing the files in the office, and suddenly heard Xiao Shi, the duty officer of the Political Department, from the Propaganda Unit, shouting in the corridor: "Something is wrong, everyone come and see!" ā€

The personnel of all units were attracted by his shouting, and they went to the duty room one after another, and found that the Xinbao program was reporting on the breaking event.

Our reporter reported that at about 5 a.m. Beijing time on the night of May 7, local time, NATO's American B-2 bombers dropped three precision-guided bombs in a bombing without authorization from the United Nations, hitting the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia at No. 3 Sakura Road, Belgrade, Serbia. Xinhua News Agency reporter Shao Yunhuan and Guangming Daily reporters Xu Xinghu and Zhu Ying were killed on the spot, dozens of people were injured, and the embassy building was seriously damaged. One of the JDAM did not explode on the spot. ā€

This is also too rampant, this is simply a declaration of war against our country.

This is because, according to international law, the embassies of various countries, including ships and aircraft, are the territory of the countries to which they belong.

According to China, the land and houses of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia were purchased and built by China at a cost of 12 million yuan, and the ownership of that land and real estate belongs to China, and of course belongs to Chinese territory.

The bombing of the Chinese Embassy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia by the United States and NATO, which killed three Chinese citizens and injured more than 20 Chinese citizens, should naturally be regarded as an infringement and attack on Chinese territory by the United States and NATO.

In Yang Wenbin's impression, apart from the two special cases that occurred in China, he has not heard of a precedent for any country's embassy to be violated abroad.

First, during the Eight-Nation Alliance's war of aggression against China, the Qing government organized some Qing troops and a mob of the Boxers to besiege Dongjiaomin Lane, where the embassies of various countries in China were relatively concentrated. However, due to the stubborn resistance of the guards of the embassies in China, the embassies were not captured, and their own losses were also very serious.

The second one who dared to invade the embassy of the host country was that during the period of the Beiyang warlords, Zhang Zuolin, the head of the Angolan military government, ordered the military and police to break into the former Soviet embassy in China and arrested Li Dazhao, the early leader of the Communist Party of China, and more than 80 members of the embassy.

In addition to these two accidents, Yang Wenbin really has never heard of a country's embassy being attacked.

Now, however, the bloody reality lies ahead, the People's Republic of China, the embassy of the United States in Yugoslavia, has been attacked by missiles led by the United States-led NATO.

This was a deliberate bombing, possibly in retaliation for China's previous opposition to NATO's bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Obviously, this is a US retaliation for China's support for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and a serious warning to the Chinese government.

Is it tolerable, or is it intolerable?

The duty room of the political office was boiling, and all the comrades watching TV were filled with righteous indignation, clenched their fists, and cursed the barbarism of the aggressors in their mouths.

Next, the Chinese government statement was announced:

On 8 May, the Government of the People's Republic of China issued a statement on the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia by NATO. The full text of the statement is as follows:

At midnight on 7 May, the US-led NATO brazenly attacked the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from different angles with three missiles, causing serious damage to the Embassy. To date, two people have died, two are missing, and more than 20 have been injured.

The US-led NATO's wanton and indiscriminate bombing of Yugoslavia for more than 40 days has caused a large number of casualties among innocent civilians, and now it is actually bombing the Chinese Embassy; NATO's act is a gross violation of China's sovereignty and a wanton trampling on the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the basic norms governing international relations, which is rare in the history of diplomacy.

The Chinese Government and people express their great indignation and stern condemnation of this barbaric atrocity and lodge the strongest protests.

NATO, led by the United States, must take full responsibility for this, and the Chinese government reserves the right to take further measures. ā€œ

The next news reported:

After the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Chinese people were outraged, and large-scale anti-US demonstrations broke out in many parts of the country. Many university students demonstrated in front of the embassies of the United States and other NATO countries in Beijing, Shanghai, and other places, and the Chinese Government strongly protested against this rude and barbaric act of NATO troops, and issued a statement to the United States and other major NATO countries, demanding that the perpetrators must be severely punished and apologize.

The demonstrations were held in the capitals of Beijing, Dongfang, Yangcheng, Rongcheng, and the provincial capitals, as well as in large cities, and crowds went to protest in front of the US embassies and consulates or in central squares.

A student from Jingcheng University put up a slogan in the famous "Triangle": "Don't take the TOEFL (TOEFL), don't send the test (GRE), and fight the US imperialism wholeheartedly." ā€

At 3 p.m. on the day of the incident, someone had already started to act, and Beijing University dispatched school buses to transport students. Riot police and armed police, armed with shields, sticks and gas shells, guarded the embassy but did not stop the protests.

Some of the agitated people threw plastic bottles and even stones into the embassy.

The students withdrew in the evening, but after nightfall there was a protest by about 1,000 Beijing citizens.

Agitated protesters clashed with police as they burned American flags, broke embassy windows and smashed embassy vehicles.

What happened next seemed to get even more out of control, as Chinese patriotic hackers (i.e., red customers) began to attack American websites on a large scale, leading to a cyberwar between China and the United States, with more than 100 websites on each side being planted with each other's national flags.

This bombing and subsequent developments have brought about a sharp deterioration in relations between the two countries, which had been on the rise due to the exchange of visits between the heads of state of China and the United States.

Later, for the reasons of the NATO bombing,

The British newspaper "The Observer" and the Danish "Statesman" newspaper said that NATO specially bombed the embassy because the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia used it as a relay station for radar signals.

A high-ranking NATO general said that at that time, NATO believed that Yugoslav President Milosevic was at the Chinese Embassy, so the bombing of the embassy was a planned "decapitation operation."

There are also some people who believe that part of the Chinese embassy was the wreckage of the F-117 Nighthawk fighter shot down by the Serbian army with SA-3 missiles, and the US military did not want China to get this technology and wanted to blow up the embassy.