
Cooperation on missing service members resurfaces following summit between leaders
Following a summit between US and Chinese leaders, both nations have agreed to resume cooperation in searching for the remains of US service members missing in China since World War II, marking a practical area of collaboration between the two powers.
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The search for US service members missing in China since World War II has been a decades-long effort involving both nations.
A decades-long effort by Beijing and Washington to recover the remains of US servicemen missing in China since World War II has resurfaced in the wake of the summit between the nations’ leaders.
According to a statement issued by China’s foreign ministry after the summit, the two sides agreed that their militaries would “continue to cooperate in searching for the remains of missing US service members in China”.
Why was cooperation over the remains included in the summit outcomes?
Against that backdrop, the continued search for remains provides a practical area in which the two sides can cooperate, observers say.

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