Putin, Xi Comments Caught On Hot Mic At Military Parade
Beijing, September 3 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin caught a hot microphone in discussing the possibility that people might live up to 150 years of age when they walked with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Putin and Xi’nin North Korea Kim Jong Fun and a delegation of more than two dozens of foreign leaders, while walking at the beginning of a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Beijing.
On the live broadcast provided by the state publisher CCTV, it was moved to other media, including AP and Reuters. China’s radio and TV management, CCTV’s scope of the event online is 1.9 billion times and more than 400 million on TV, he said.
Putin and Xi were walking towards the Tiananmen chair where they watched the parade with Kim, Putin’s translator could be heard in Chinese: “Biotechnology is constantly developing.”
Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin pool photo through AP
The interpreter added after an irreplaceable passage: “Human organs can be transplanted continuously. The longer you live, the more young you become and you can even reach immortality.”
On the other hand, Xi, who is outside the camera, may hear that he responds in Chinese: “Some predict that in this century, people can live up to 150 years of age.”
Who was smiling and looked at the direction of Putin and Xi, but it was not clear whether the conversation would be translated for him. Putin cannot hear that he speaks clearly in Russian in his CCTV clip.
Putin then confirmed that he and Xi discussed the issue on Wednesday.
“I think the president spoke about it when we went to the parade, Put Putin said to the journalists in Beijing when he asked a question about the leaked speech.
“Modern health improvement tools, medical tools, even surgical tools related to organ replacement allow humanity to hope that active life will continue differently from today,” he said.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry and CCTV did not respond immediately to requests from Reuters.
When Xi began to speak, the video cut a wide shooting of Tiananmen Square and faded.
30 seconds later, Xi, Putin and Kim re -appeared on the camera while walking in steps towards the monitoring platform for the parade.
In the event, Xi said that he was facing a “peace or war” option, while examining the soldiers and the latest military equipment, including a crowd of more than 50,000 spectators, the world’s world, including hypersonic missiles and sea drones.
Putin came to China on Sunday and came to participate in a summit organized by Beijing, who gathered more than 20 leaders of non -Western countries, including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Putin and Xi signed more than 20 agreements on issues ranging from energy to artificial intelligence, and agreed to create a large new gas pipeline without announcing the basic details of the financing or pricing of the gas to be sent to China.
(Reporting by Beijing Newsroom; Editing by Jon Boyle and Peter Graff)
