The reaction of China’s leaders to the America’s accidental attack on China’s embassy in Belgrade in 1998, and to the collision of an American spy plane with a Chinese plane over the Pacific, was to permit, if not foment, large anti-foreign demonstrations. In keeping with this syndrome, Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing has accused Japan of having “hurt the feelings of the Chinese people” by not apologizing for their crimes, as if he were Minister of Psychology, rather than foreign affairs.