Xi went to Serbia today to commemorate the 25th anniversary of NATO bombing China’s embassy. If you weren’t alive in the 90s, I’ll catch you up in a very oversimplified way - Yugoslavia was a country that once existed. It broke apart due to several civil wars where Serbia was the primary aggressor and then genocide happened alongside a lot of ethnic cleansing. So NATO intervened to put an end to it and during this, the US accidentally bombed the Chinese embassy. So ever since then, Serbia has been the default anti-west country in Europe. And today China said “The Chinese people will never forget this barbaric atrocity committed by NATO and will never accept such tragic history repeating itself”. On this trip - Xi and Serbia signed 29 agreements about pursuing a “shared future” together and an ironclad partnership. Experts say this partnership is natural because the two view themselves as a righteous force wronged by hostile outsiders
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