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US and China to continue joint search for missing servicemen

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Following a summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump, the militaries of both nations have agreed to continue their cooperation in searching for the remains of missing US servicemen in China. This renewed focus on joint efforts comes after a successful case where the recovery of US fighter pilot Morton Sher's remains was facilitated by cooperation, leading to his burial in South Carolina in 2025. The agreement aims to resolve approximately 700 cases of missing servicemen by providing access to crash sites and wartime Chinese archives. AI

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Teresa Elena Frontado ·

    US search for missing airmen in China gains new attention after Xi-Trump summit

    For more than eight decades, the remains of US fighter pilot Morton Sher lay unrecovered in China. A photograph of a memorial to him in a Hunan village eventually helped investigators find where his plane crashed in 1943. Sher was buried in his hometown of Greenville, South Carol…

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