Comments on: Ten years on from NATO bombing a Chinese embassy … a Chinese voice on what’s changed.

By: Victor

Victor — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:58:29 +0000

All this talk of the USA “intentionally” bombing the Chinese embassy… for 10 years! Yet no one has ever mentioned a MOTIVE. If it was intentional, then certainly during a time of war there must have been a strategic, or tactical military motive. What was that motive?

World powers don’t bomb each other’s embassies.

By: James

James — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:59:02 +0000

Think he was been sarcastic, hence the air quotes. He’s saying they didn’t miss but was intentionally targeted.

I’m not too sure about the figures, but usually when they bomb “targets” in Afganistan they’re aiming people, ala top terrorists leaders. Even if they bomb the right building, if the leader wasn’t actually at the location, they would classify that as missing the target.

By: CNA

CNA — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:55:12 +0000

Also as mentioned by an CNA (a Washington Think tank) seminar on US-China relations. The speak mentions that embassy bomb was the only target selected by CIA. The rest of the targets for the entire Kosovo conflict was selected from Pentegon. Very suspecius…

Here is the video of the seminar. (warning, it’s about 2 hours long, and feature a bunch of old guys)
http://dl2.newmediamill.net/media/cna/flash/051208/051208c.html

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By: FOARP

FOARP — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:48:15 +0000

Website crashes every time It try to load up the previous page of comments. And yeah, I’m not the only one who doubts the statistics, but it’s worth mentioning that NATO did not claim that they’d missed, but that their targeting had been wrong - they hit what they were aiming for.

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:02:23 +0000

“Facts speak louder than words. In 1999 NATO bombing of Belgrade, only seven bombs out of more than 5,000 �missed� their targets, and five of the seven were thrown at the Chinese embassy.”

5 out of 5,000? I read that almost 25% of the bombs in the Afgan conflict four years later missed their target. Where is he getting his information?

In his last post Zhangning said, “A big problem I am finding in western countries is that many western friends are criticizing China based on totally wrong information, and this will make our misunderstanding even worse.”

I think he just lived up to his own criticism. Is he practicing for a position with the foreign ministry?