Serbia prepares warm welcome for Xi in contrast to China-EU tensions

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Chinese flags adorned highways as Serbia got ready to give a home-from-home welcome to Xi Jinping, contrasting tensions on the first leg of the Chinese president’s six-day European tour over a potential trade war with the EU. Xi prepared for his arrival in Belgrade on Tuesday night by hitting out against Nato for its 1999 bombing of the Chinese embassy in the Serbian capital, in which three Chinese journalists were killed. In an article for the Serbian website Politika, Xi wrote: “Twenty-five years ago, Nato flagrantly bombed the Chinese embassy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, killing three Chinese journalists,...