Beijing: When the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, walked with a shoulder shoulder with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday, a hot microphone caught them discussing organ transplants and the possibility that humans could live up to 150 years.
The moment came when Putin and XI walked with Kim Jong a North Korea at the head of a delegation of more than two dozen foreign leaders to see a military parade in Beijing that marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.
The moment was taken to the live broadcast provided by the state station CCTV To other media, including AP and Reuters. China's radio and television administration said CCTV The coverage of the event was seen 1.9 billion times online and in more than 400 million on television.
While Putin and XI walked to Tiananmen's face, where they saw the parade with Kim, the Putin translator was heard in Chino: “Biotechnology is continuously developing.”
The translator added, after an inaudible passage: “Human organs can be continuously transplanted. The more alive, the younger it will become (it can (can) even achieve immortality.”
In response, XI, who was out of the camera, can be heard responding in Chinese: “Some predict that in this century humans can live up to 150 years.”
Kim was smiling and looking in the direction of Putin and Xi, but it was not clear if the conversation was being translated for him. Putin cannot be heard clearly in Russian in the CCTV clip.
Putin later confirmed that he and Xi had discussed the theme on Wednesday.
“I think when we went to the parade, the president talked about it,” Putin told journalists in Beijing when asked about the leaked conversation.
“Modern health improvement means, medical means, even surgical related to organ replacement, allow humanity to wait for active life to continue differently from what it does today,” he said.
China's Foreign Ministry and CCTV did not immediately respond to requests for Reuters By comment.
When Xi started talking, the video cut to a photo of Tiananmen Square and the audio vanished.
Little more than 30 seconds later, XI, Putin and Kim reappeared in the camera while walking on the steps towards the observation platform for the parade.
In the event, Xi told a multitude of more than 50,000 spectators that the world faced a “peace or war” option while inspecting avant -garde military troops and teams, including hypersonic missiles and naval drones.
Putin arrived in China on Sunday to attend a summit organized by Beijing that summoned more than 20 leaders from non -western countries, including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Putin and XI signed more than 20 agreements on subjects ranging from energy to artificial intelligence, and agreed to build an important new gas pipe, without announcing key details about financing or the price of gas that will be sent to China.
