They're giving themselves cover for when they want to and do strike something Chinese (already done after all, they bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade).
Now they can just say it was a "AI mistake" and point to this as having happened again (but this time "it slipped through", like the girls' school in Iran)
Now they can just say it was a "AI mistake" and point to this as having happened again (but this time "it slipped through", like the girls' school in Iran)