Chinese soldiers carry coffins to a transport plane at South Korea’s Incheon Airport. They contain remains of Chinese army personnel who died in the Korean War. Mao Zedong had sent the „People’s Volunteer Army“ 人民志愿军 to the neighboring country in 1950 as unofficial units to fight the US alongside North Korea. Unofficially, because he did not want to risk a war with the US. The US accepted this charade because, for its part, it had no interest in escalation. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers were left behind in the chaos of this war. The eighth round of repatriations of their remains to China is currently underway, where they are being received with full honors.