China’s President Xi Jinping has lashed out at Nato over its “flagrant” bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1999 as he tries to cement ties with Serbia ahead of a visit to the Balkan country on Tuesday.
Xi, who is travelling in Europe for the first time in five years, will head to Serbia on Tuesday afternoon from the French Pyrenees, where French President Emmanuel Macron is hosting him on the final day of a three-day state visit to France.
In a signed letter in the Serbian media outlet Politika, Xi invoked the 25th anniversary on Tuesday of the Nato bombing of the Chinese embassy in the former Yugoslavia during the Kosovo war to call for unity between Beijing and Belgrade.