In March 1999, a heavyweight meeting was held in Rambouillet, a suburb of Paris, France. The meeting was attended by the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, and China, and its main purpose was to mediate the conflict in Kosovo. The Yugoslav side initially refused to sit at the same table as the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), because this would give the rebels equal power to them, and it was clear that Yugoslavia would not have much advantage with the participation of Western countries, so it was better not to participate altogether.

However, at the suggestion of the Chinese ambassador to Yugoslavia, Novakovic finally chose to send a delegation to France, because at least Yugoslavia had the sincerity to solve the problem through peaceful means, and even if the Yugoslav side did not have any idea of peace at all, but the gesture was always to be made.

In order to show that China attaches great importance to the Yugoslavia and Kosovo issues, not only did Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan come to Paris, but even a bigwig from one of the P-7 was also present in person. The outside world commented that the Rambouillet meeting was full of gunpowder, and the United States might join forces with other Western countries to fire artillery on Yugoslavia, while China fought alone, and was not optimistic about its performance.

At the very beginning of the meeting, NATO countries showed a tough posture, and US Special Envoy Hill proposed a solution: respect for the territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Kosovo enjoys a high degree of autonomy, the withdrawal of troops from Kosovo, the disarmament of the Kosovo Liberation Army, the formation of a new police force in proportion to the local population to maintain law and order, and NATO's dispatch of a multinational force to Kosovo to ensure the implementation of the agreement.

However, such an agreement is obviously in favor of Kosovo and settlement and not to Yugoslavia, and although it says that its territorial integrity is respected, it wants to allow the Yugoslav People's Army to withdraw from Kosovo and NATO to send security forces to Kosovo, which in fact wants to create a situation in which Yugoslavia loses actual control over Kosovo.

In fact, not only was the Yugoslav side unwilling to sign such an agreement, but the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was also quite dissatisfied with this agreement, because the agreement required them to abandon their arms, which was obviously unacceptable to the Kosovo Liberation Army, which had been put together with great difficulty. In particular, some figures with political ambitions know that having a gun in their hands is their future dependence, and if they are alone in the future, the influence they can form will be limited. Moreover, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) has promised independence to the Kosovars, and if such an agreement is accepted, Kosovo will still belong to Yugoslavia, which is tantamount to breaking their promises.

Of course, there is someone else who cannot accept this agreement, and that is China. China regards Yugoslavia as an important strategic partner of Europe, and although it has not yet reached a military alliance, a quasi-alliance cannot run. What's more, China stationed more than 9,000 soldiers in Yugoslavia, and the situation in Yugoslavia is closely related to the stability of China's overseas bases.

Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan said forcefully at the meeting: "The plan proposed by NATO countries is not practical, biased and non-constructive, and cannot substantively solve the problem, and China clearly opposes the plan, and believes that the basic principle for solving the problem is to earnestly respect and support the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Yugoslavia while respecting the will of the people of Kosovo." It is difficult to achieve results by directly discussing such a political issue, and my country believes that the most important issue at this stage is to obtain a bilateral ceasefire and the resettlement of refugees. ”

German Foreign Minister Fischer argued: "It is clear that the Yugoslav side, especially the dominant Serbian forces, has committed violent aggression against the Kosovo Albanians, and if the Yugoslav troops are not withdrawn from Kosovo, the Kosovo Albanians are still in danger of being violated." ”

Tang Jiaxuan said: "Allowing a country's military forces to withdraw from its own legitimate territory and completely relinquishing the right to govern a place is tantamount to dividing the territory of that country in disguise, which is a serious violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of an independent country, and is also an act of gross interference in the internal affairs of other countries." ”

US Special Envoy Hill blinked his eyes and said a particularly famous sentence in later generations: "Foreign Minister Tang, we believe that human rights are higher than sovereignty, and what happened in Kosovo has challenged the conscience and basic bottom line of mankind, and the existence of any country is not based on harming the right of human beings to survive and develop, and the sovereignty of the state should give way to human rights." We cannot sit idly by and watch some people openly violate human rights in the name of protecting national sovereignty, which is a grave violation of universal values. ”

Tang Jiaxuan smiled angrily and said, "Human rights are greater than sovereignty? My country believes that sovereignty is, to a certain extent, equivalent to the sum total of the human rights rights of a wide range of individual nationals in our country, and that there is simply no situation in which the so-called rights of a small number of people are intended to give way to the rights of the majority. By interfering on the basis of human rights over sovereignty, you will eventually violate the human rights of another part of the population, and the so-called protection of the human rights of the Kosovars, but the rights of the rest of the Yugoslavs will be violated. Therefore, we believe that this view is not valid at all, and we advise the countries concerned not to use any trendy and eye-catching concepts as an excuse to intrude on a sovereign country and destabilize the entire region. As a responsible major country and an active force for world peace and stability, China will absolutely not allow such a thing to happen. ”

If this continues, it is natural that several countries will not be able to reach a consensus on this issue, because they have fundamental differences. The relationship between Yugoslavia and the Kosovo Liberation Army (PLA) is also a fundamental contradiction of an absolute nature, so neither the countries concerned nor the mediating countries can reach a reunification, and there is little need for this conference to continue.

Qi Yiming, who was far away in Beijing, also paid close attention to the progress of the Rambouillet meeting, and when he heard that China and the United States had not held any private and informal meetings during the entire meeting, he knew that this matter could not be improved.

"The United States seems to be iron-hearted, and after so many years of lurking, it is ready to give us a ruthless blow!" Qi Yiming sighed that he was not particularly worried about the challenges posed by the United States, and he was quite calm.

He opened a window on his computer and sent a message to the military, and now the development of the country's information system has reached an extremely high level, and it has become common for government departments to use this method to convey information, and many written documents have been converted into electronic versions.

"NATO's intention to intervene in Kosovo is very strong, and it is afraid of launching a large-scale air offensive, so we must not sit idly by, but should strengthen our military strength in Yugoslavia to show our determination to defend Yugoslavia, and conduct large-scale joint military exercises in Yugoslavia to deter NATO's aggression against Yugoslavia." After all, Qi Yiming is not a complete military person, at most half of it, especially in recent years, the top level of the military has also changed generals, Qi Yiming is more hidden behind the scenes, using the shell of the Strategic Bureau to do things, and he basically does not interfere in the internal problems of the military.

However, the support and influence of the Strategy Bureau on the military is still not small, because of its unique existence, the Strategy Bureau has the right to make suggestions to the military, of course, the military can choose not to adopt, but the Strategy Bureau's rich and powerful intelligence resources and analysis capabilities still make the military more trusting the judgment of the Strategy Bureau. Moreover, Qi Yiming himself still controls the Red Police Corps, and the military needs to coordinate with Qi Yiming in any war or military operation above a certain intensity, and send Red Police troops on some occasions to cooperate with the PLA headquarters to fight.

And if Qi Yiming's motivation for carrying out a certain operation is very great, and the military is relatively unimpressed, half of the military will then forward the following information to the Strategy Bureau: Director Qi is requested to use the forces of the Strategy Bureau to carry out the task as appropriate, and the military will fully cooperate. This actually means that the military does not want to send troops, and you can do it yourself if you want toss.

Qi Yiming's judgment on the minds of the United States and other Western countries is quite accurate, and not engaging with China means that the United States is bent on going its own way and wants to deal with Yugoslavia strongly. Yugoslavia, on the other hand, had Chinese troops stationed there, and if you don't look at the faces of the Chinese troops there, it is obviously a slap in the face. The United States wants to see if China dares to defend its quasi-ally strength at the expense of fighting the United States. If China backs down, the alliances it has forged will be shaken. Of course, if China is tough, then the United States can choose to continue to provoke, or it can choose to retreat temporarily.

The Kosovo crisis has already developed into a trend of developing into the Cuban missile crisis, and the two major powers are walking a tightrope, while the United States feels that it is pulling a group of European allies and is more emboldened, while China is fighting them alone, and it is bound to be weak-minded. The U.S. feels that China will back down, and China feels that the U.S. will back down, so they don't give in to each other.

If the Americans really enter Kosovo, then the overseas bases opened by China in Yugoslavia will be abolished, because whether it is Split or Sarajevo, they will be contained by the NATO troops stationed in Kosovo, and even this is a situation where the enemy is on their backs, then the meaning of the existence of the Chinese troops in Yugoslavia will be gone.

Of course, the West did not know that Qi Yiming also put a red police base in Yugoslavia, which was enough to fight a battle on the scale of a super conference battle, and the few soldiers and horses stationed from Kosovo would not cause Qi Yiming any trouble at all.

After the collapse of the Rambouillet talks, the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, abandoning China and Russia, issued a joint statement on their own, first accusing Yugoslavia of human rights violations and massacres, and demanding that the demands of the people of Kosovo be squarely addressed. At the same time, Yugoslavia was called upon not to go against world justice, to immediately reach a peace agreement with Kosovo and to withdraw from Kosovo, and at the same time try war criminals. This joint statement is known as the Rambouillet Proclamation

US President Clinton once again made a televised speech, saying that the Yugoslav side did not have the slightest sincerity in wanting to solve the problem and was intensively preparing for an even larger genocide against Albanians, and that a terrible humanitarian catastrophe was brewing. The United States demanded that Yugoslavia immediately accept the Rambouillet Proclamation and cease military operations in Kosovo. If not, the United States does not rule out drastic measures to safeguard the human rights and security of the Kosovars.