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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (4230)	5/8/1999 3:03:00 PM
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China Erupts In Fury At NATO Strike Updated 2:22 PM ET May 8, 1999 Chinese Protesters Hold Candle-Light Vigil in Beijing (Reuters) By Benjamin Kang Lim BEIJING (Reuters) - Thousands of people protested at U.S. and other diplomatic missions in China Saturday in an officially sanctioned outpouring of fury at NATO's bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. They bombarded the U.S. embassy in Beijing with stones and debris, smashing windows. They hurled bricks and bottles at the British embassy and attacked at least four parked cars belonging to U.S. diplomats, leaving one slued across the road, its windows shattered. They hurled bottles and eggs at the U.S. consulate in Shanghai. They swarmed around NATO member missions in the southern city of Guangzhou. The government summoned U.S. Ambassador James Sasser to hear the "strongest protest" over the strike on the Chinese embassy as students chanted "Down With U.S. Imperialism," "Pay Blood Debts in Blood" and "Down with U.S. Running Dogs." Several chanted: "Clinton is Hitler." One banner bore the Nazi swastika and the word NATO. More protests were expected Sunday. Even before the Chinese embassy was hit, resentment had been building against the United States, portrayed by state media as an arrogant global bully which chooses conflict over diplomacy. Now, no one seems convinced by NATO saying the overnight attack on the Chinese embassy was a "tragic mistake." Many people, including a top banker, said they were absolutely sure NATO had targeted the Chinese mission deliberately. "China should send troops to help the people of Yugoslavia," yelled 37-year-old Beijing worker Hong Tielu to loud applause. A Shanghai woman used every swear word she knew in English to condemn the strike, in which the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said four people were killed. Beijing called it a war crime. China's official news agency Xinhua said the Beijing protest had police approval. Buses brought students to the U.S. embassy and the crowd cheered as the Stars and Stripes went up in flames outside the main gates. The protest diminished at dusk and the drama switched to China's financial capital of Shanghai as the word spread of NATO's strike on the Chinese embassy, in which Xinhua said three people were killed, one was missing and 21 were wounded. Thousands of people hurried in the dark to the U.S. consular compound on one of the plushest streets of central Shanghai. A huge cheer went up as the lamp at the main entrance was hit in the barrage of missiles. Each time another student group, often accompanied by their teachers, arrived under their university banner, another roar went up and the chanting of slogans like "U.S. Fascist" and "NATO murderers" grew louder. Only at midnight, when police made a second effort to move people away, did the protest begin to subside. And it did not wane until the biggest roar of the evening greeted the lowering of the American flag over the consulate. Shortly afterwards, a Chinese man came out of the compound. He was hustled away quickly by police. A man who identified himself as an education official urged students through a bullhorn to go home -- but promised there would be more action Sunday. Students in Beijing said they planned further protests. Hundreds of police initially did nothing to stop people hurling missiles at the U.S. embassy in Beijing. But as daylight faded, they moved in to shepherd the students back to their buses. The protests did not end, however. Small groups of students and other people moved to the nearby compound housing Sasser's residence. Police, three deep, cordoned off the road, but allowed some protesters through to sing the Chinese national anthem, burn another U.S. flag and demand to talk to U.S. diplomats. "You come out or we'll come in," they chanted. Police kept them away from the entrance gate, however. Small groups, some sitting with lighted candles, remained at Sasser's residence into the small hours of the morning. Another group, several hundred strong, got through police barriers to join them in the middle of the night and many hurled plastic soft drink bottles into the compound. The U.S. embassy told Americans to stay off the streets as individuals whose countries are NATO members reported being the target of verbal rage once their nationalities were identified. The protests reflected overwhelming anger and incomprehension at an air war NATO says is being waged to stop and reverse what it calls ethnic cleansing of Albanians from the Serbian province of Kosovo. A man in Shanghai reflected government concern that the NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia foreshadowed intervention in what China regards as its internal affairs. "We know what the U.S. intention is -- today Kosovo, tomorrow Taiwan," he said. The Chinese government has said the NATO campaign, launched without United Nations sanction, could be repeated over Taiwan, which Beijing regards as a renegade province, or Tibet. news.excite.com