Yinhe

The Yinhe incident occurred in 1993 after the United States government received intelligence that the China-based container ship Yinhe was carrying chemical weapon materials to Iran. The United States Navy forced the surrounding Middle Eastern countries to refuse docking rights to the Yinhe, leaving it in the international waters of the Indian Ocean for twenty-four days. Additionally, the Chinese found that the GPS of the ship was jammed such that the ship could not navigate. Eventually, inspections of the ship's cargo by a joint Saudi–United States team concluded that the cargo ship did not contain any chemical weapons precursors. The United States government stated that there would be no apology, saying "the United States had acted in good faith on intelligence from multiple sources." Some American officials within the Clinton administration later raised the possibility, without any evidence, of China having deliberately spread false intelligence in order to cause the incident, referring to it as a "sting" to embarrass Washington. The incident resulted in an increase of Chinese nationalism and anti-Americanism in China throughout the 1990s.

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