Think of it as the Boxer Rebellion plus electronic coverage. Here was a chance for China's illegitimate regime to lay hold of a legitimate grievance and ally itself with popular fervor. And the commissars didn't miss it. They've also suspended military contacts with the United States. Somehow we don't think this means they'll stop stealing our military secrets.
War is war, propaganda is propaganda, but business is business.
But only some suffering is preserved on film, like that of the Chinese diplomats grieving over their dead in Belgrade. There are no CNN camera crews to record the massacres that continue even now in Kosovo. Only the outline of mass graves from 15,000 feet offer a clue to the fate of thousands and the horrendous destruction of a whole people. The Albanians of Kosovo have become unpersons. War is hell.