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The Daily Telegraph May 11, 1999
ALLIES PAINTED AS BUMBLING BULLIES
By Christopher Lockwood, Diplomatic Editor
The bombing of the Chinese Embassy has been seized upon by
all those opposed to the NATO campaign - from die-hard anti-
Americans in Beijing to politicians and press within the alliance.
Arriving in the Macedonian capital of Skopje yesterday, Oscar
Scalfaro, the Italian president, said: "It is necessary for the bombing
to stop because we are very worried to see that the raids are
apparently moving away from military targets and are being
directed towards civilian targets."
The Italian press has been more scathing. La Repubblica asked:
"To err is human, to persevere is diabolical - aren't we persevering
beyond every limit?" Spain has been one of the most reliable NATO
countries in the crisis but even the conservative El Mundo wrote:
"The measures used by NATO to make Milosevic yield are absurd,
bungling and irresponsible. The alliance's leaders are truly
incompetent."
In Greece, the Eleftherotypia, which usually backs the
government, said: "The phrase 'war criminals' is the most lenient
characterisation that one can attribute to NATO which is
indiscriminately causing death in Serbia." With protests across Asia
- in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Pakistan and Singapore -
the German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder took his forthcoming
visit to China back to the drawing board and postponed a EU-Sino
summit.
More than 100 protesters in Taiwan threw paint and eggs at the
US mission and burned US flags. In Hong Kong, Martin Lee, the
pro-democracy leader, led a march to the US and British
consulates. He said: "It would be very sad indeed if such good
relations were to be ruined by a single act of atrocity. That's why
we call upon the US government, the leader of the NATO forces,
to apologise unreservedly and pay compensation."
In Islamabad, Pakistani riot police blocked about 150 Chinese
marching to the US Embassy. And in Thailand, a tape broadcast
hourly on Business Radio said: "Keep watch on the dangerous and
ugly American who is cited as our best friend."
Demonstrators in Tokyo held up photos of the three victims and
signs saying: "NATO is a killer."
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