Despite this, there were at least three serious flare-ups between China and the US during Jiang's tenure: the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis in 1996, the above-mentioned NATO bombing of Serbia, and the Hainan Island incident in April 2001.
Despite this, there were at least three serious flare-ups between China and the US during Jiang's tenure. The second was the above-mentioned NATO bombing of Serbia and the third was the shootdown of a US spyplane over Hainan in April 2001.