{
  "declared_links": {
    "economic_signal_ids": [],
    "relation": "topic-surface-only",
    "scan_signal_ids": []
  },
  "dek": "The United States and China are working to iron out a military accident-prevention agreement ahead of their summit in Shenzhen, although progress has been slow amid divisions within the US administration, according to sources. Both sides were still trying to reach common ground on a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on",
  "desk": "politics",
  "event_id": "event-55b48d41ab09d6e5c13cf6d7",
  "evidence_groups": [
    {
      "group_id": "south-china-morning-post-editorial",
      "roles": [
        "media"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "scmp-china"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "evidence_refs": [
    {
      "independence_group": "south-china-morning-post-editorial",
      "item_id": "item-d0dbb755ef6edfb9c4c8ba93",
      "published_at": "2026-11-15T14:00:13Z",
      "role": "media",
      "source_id": "scmp-china",
      "source_name": "South China Morning Post — China",
      "title": "US, China seek common ground on military crisis pact as Washington weighs terms: sources",
      "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3374503/us-china-seek-common-ground-military-crisis-pact-washington-weighs-terms-sources",
      "version_id": "itemv-bd8fc175d1fd532d27b2f893"
    }
  ],
  "evidence_strength": "single-source",
  "headline": "US, China seek common ground on military crisis pact as Washington weighs terms: sources",
  "lead": false,
  "lead_reason": "Current single-source metadata is retained but not promoted as a lead.",
  "limitations": [
    "Palimpsest retained only feed title, canonical link, time, and a bounded plain-text excerpt; it did not fetch the article body.",
    "The evidence-strength label describes source structure, not truth, intent, impact, or causation.",
    "Declared instrument links are topical pointers until a separate scan or economic observation is joined by time and method.",
    "Title-similarity clustering can miss differently worded or cross-language accounts and can join closely worded updates.",
    "This dossier currently contains one independent evidence group and remains explicitly attributed."
  ],
  "mutation": {
    "kind": "unchanged",
    "previous_version_id": "eventv-20f6b06157c9bf456f708b25"
  },
  "published_at": "2026-11-15T14:00:13Z",
  "reported_facts": [
    {
      "attribution": "South China Morning Post — China",
      "evidence_item_id": "item-d0dbb755ef6edfb9c4c8ba93",
      "published_at": "2026-11-15T14:00:13Z",
      "statement": "South China Morning Post — China published “US, China seek common ground on military crisis pact as Washington weighs terms: sources”."
    }
  ],
  "topics": [
    "policy",
    "politics"
  ],
  "updated_at": "2026-11-15T14:00:13Z",
  "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/wire/event-55b48d41ab09d6e5c13cf6d7/",
  "version_id": "eventv-20f6b06157c9bf456f708b25"
}