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The love-hate relationship illustrated in the article has been around since at least 1999, when the US bombed the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia.

• Scoundreller 7y ago
  Just to be clear for everyone, you mean the one in Serbia. The former Yugoslavia footprint has several Chinese embassies.
  • Mediterraneo10 7y ago
    In 1999, there was only one Yugoslavia around: after the departure of the other republics, Serbia and Montenegro maintained the name "Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" for their country. The OP was correct in saying that the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia was bombed. (Only later did they change the name to "Serbia and Montenegro", and it was only then that the name "Yugoslavia" disappeared.)
• onetimemanytime 7y ago
  One of Clinton's advisers (name escapes me) has written that from their basement the Serbian army was receiving instructions. When presented the evidence, China kinda shut up. maybe they didn't want to have their involvement be known or whatever. I don't think US bombed it by mistake
• anthuman 7y ago
  It started much earlier than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze_Patrol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze_Patrol And people forget that some of the largest mass lynchings were against the chinese. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_massacre_of_1871 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_massacre_of_1871 And the only anti-immigration bill to target a specific ethnic group was once again directed against the chinese. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act