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Yes, US gov as global mafia: "Shame what happened to your nice tanker, Mr. Abe, would be terrible if that sort of thing kept happening." Reminds me of US bombing Chinese embassy in Belgrade on May 7, 1999, shortly after China questioned the ongoing US war on Yugoslavia.
AFP from April 15, 1999: "China slams NATO strikes on Yugoslavia, calls for end of action": "We express our great concern over the humanitarian catastrophe unleashed by the NATO bombs," foreign ministry spokesman Sun Yuxi said. 
The US criticism was a case of the thief crying "Stop, thief!", said commentator Xun Feng in the paper. United States Undersecretary of State Frank Loy had criticised those countries for trampling on human rights while US...began to bombard civilian targets in Yugoslavia, he said
AFP April 23, 1999: Chinese ramped up attacks on US bombing even more: "NATO stands accused of butchery by Chinese press"
Chinese didn't buy the US gov claim that the bombing was a mistake: "the explanations that the US side had supplied so far were anything but convincing and that the ensuring conclusion of the so-called mistaken bombing was by no means acceptable..." fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/ziliao…
Even the Observer/Guardian wrote up piece "NATO bombed Chinese deliberately" theguardian.com/world/1999/oct…
and @FAIRmediawatch published piece on lack of coverage in US media of expose: fair.org/take-action/ac…
and @FAIRmediawatch published piece on lack of coverage in US media of expose: fair.org/take-action/ac…
Wikipedia (not a great source) claims CIA Director George Tenet "acknowledged the target package originated within the CIA and that it was the sole CIA-directed strike of the war". I couldn't back that up upon initial scanning of citations. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_St…
But this BBC piece seems to back up thrust of that argument: "They were locked-on to the precise co-ordinates of a target selected and cleared by the CIA. ... CIA, which was not normally involved in target-picking ... The crux of the CIA's explanation was hard for many to...
...believe: the world's most advanced military had bombed a fellow UN Security Council member and one of the most vocal opponents of the NATO air campaign because of a mapping error. China was having none of it. The story, it said, was 'not convincing'." bbc.com/news/world-eur…
@davidcnswanson h/t -- thanks.
During my searching on this, came across this puerile @tomfriedman piece from 1999. How, oh, how could we have gotten a president as ridiculous as Trump? nytimes.com/1999/05/07/opi…
Pompeo just made statement with standard anti Iranian rhetoric, wouldn't take any questions.
Interesting piece in Japanese @NAR reports that Prime Minister’Abe’s visit on Wednesday was the first of a Japanese leader to Tehran “since the 1979 Iranian Revolution”. asia.nikkei.com/Politics/US-bl…
@TimothyS ht — thanks.
