refers to the nato-bombing of the chinese embassy in belgrade, yugoslavia, may 7, 1999, in the kosovo-war.

This attack, along with an official apology by NATO's secretary General Javier Solana, spawned a number of protests across europe. In a meeting with the Chinese ambassador in Brussels, Solana said that the bombing of the embassy was a deeply regrettable mistake.

Other sources weren't sure it was a mistake. In an article in the New York Times (May 9), its correspondent reported that NATO officials said that the hit was no mistake; that their aircraft had carried out the mission correctly. They blamed the c.i.a. and an outdated map of Belgrade for the wrong target selection. "We hit what we were aiming for, but we did not mean to hit the Chinese embassy", they said.according to a lot of people the bombing of the embassy was no mistake, but a warning to milosevic for not seeking help from outside and also a warning to communist china, to tell them not to help yugoslavia and in general to listen to the usa, the most powerful country in the world.