Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin have been caught on a hot mic talking about the potential of medicine to extend human life spans and "perhaps even achieve immortality".

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A live-stream broadcast of China’s military parade has captured Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin discussing biotechnology’s potential to extend life.

An interpreter translating Mr Putin can be heard saying in Mandarin that human organ transplants could let “us live younger and younger, and perhaps even achieve immortality”.

Mr Xi responded that it may be possible for people to live to 150 years this century.

  • sus@programming.devEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    I was going to say there was no actual evidence, but huh, I actually fell for some of the tankie lies after enough time. China’s deputy health minister Huang Jiefu repeatedly publicly acknowledged that most organ transplants came from death row inmates, and separately China was exporting organs to south korea on a massive scale prior to 2007.

    (though it’s notable that this has not been connected to the Uyghur situation specifically)

    (Also noting that it’s Israel claimed to end the practice in 2000, while China claimed to end the practice in 2015)

    sources pre-emptively posted: the guardian, (old) beijing times, zhenhua.163.com, der spiegel