The Belgrade bombing happened 5 weeks after a US stealth bomber was shot down over Serbia. At the time in 1999 there was speculation of a “connection“. Part of that plane wreckage went to China.

I always wondered what if the Hainan plane crash incident had happened after 9/11 instead of soon before. How would Bush have reacted? The crash probably would not even have occurred. And was there a connection between the Belgrade embassy bombing in 1999 and Chinese harassment of US spy planes and naval ships in 2001?