A remaining active microphone surprises XI and Putin discussing about organ transplants and immortality
Vladimir Putin discussing with Chinese President XI Jinping in Beijing on September 3, photo: Alexander Kazakov / AFP / Profimedia Images
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin were heard discussing organ transplants as a means of extending life in the margin of a Beijing military parade, writes BBC.
Putin suggested that eternal life could be possible as a result of innovations in biotechnology, according to a translation of the discussions captured by a remaining microphone.
The moment was surprised in a live broadcast by Chinese state television, while the two leaders and Kim Jong a North Korea crossed the historic Tiananmen Square in China.
XI and Putin are in power for 13, respectively 25 years. None of them expressed their intention to resign.
Standing shoulder to shoulder with North Korean and Russian leaders, the president of China used by the Victorian Day show to design an alternative vision of the future of the world order.
However, their private conversation suggests that their goals are expanding beyond the economic and political sphere.
The exchange of replies was mediated by a tangerine translator for Putin and a Russian translator for XI and then was translated into English by BBC.
“In the past, it was a rarity for someone to be over 70 years old, and nowadays it is said that at 70 you are still a child,” said Xi's translator.
An inaudible passage from Putin follows. Its mandarin translator then added: “With the development of biotechnology, human organs can be continuously transplanted, and people can live younger and even reach immortality.”
The translator of XI then said: “Predictions are that, in this century, there is a chance to live and up to 150 [de ani]”.
Putin resumed the remarks later, while talking to the Russian press.
The Russian State News Agency Tass said: “Modern recovery methods, medical methods, even the surgical ones dealing with the replacement of organs, allow humanity to hope that the active life will last more than it does today.”
“The average age is different in different countries, but life expectancy will increase significantly.”
XI said that the world is facing a choice between peace and war, in the context in which China has revealed a huge arsenal of weapons-including nuclear rockets with global action-to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.
The parade of Wednesday marked the first time that the Chinese, Russian and North Korean leaders appeared together in public, being considered by some observers a message to Western nations.
Putin and Kim joined 24 other dignitaries at the parade, including Iran president, Masoud Pezeshkian, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Luong Cuong from Vietnam and Emmerson Mnangagwa from Zimbabwe.
China has sought to position itself as a possible counterpart from the US since imposing customs tariffs by Donald Trump.
On Wednesday, the US president accused the XI of conspiracy against the US with leaders of Russia and North Korea.
In a post on Social Truth, Trump wrote: “Please send the hottest greetings to Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, while conspiring against the United States.”
