Chinese TV Demanded To Remove Video Of Putin's Conversation With Xi Jinping On Immortality
- 6.09.2025, 15:48
The rulers discussed living to 150 years old and organ transplants in Beijing.
China Central Television (CCTV) has forced Reuters to remove a video clip showing Vladimir Putin and Si Jinping on their way to a parade in Beijing discussing life extension through organ transplantation. Reuters had to remove the clip from its library and inform customers that it could not use it further because the CTC owns the rights to the parade footage, the "Agency" wrote.
On Friday, Reuters received an order from a CTC lawyer demanding it destroy a four-minute clip of a dialog between Putin and Xi edited from footage of a military parade broadcast in Beijing.
The order received by the agency said that Reuters had violated the terms of the license agreement.
"The editorial work with this material has led to a clear misrepresentation of the facts and statements contained in the licensed material," the letter from the CTC lawyer said.
Reuters removed the video from its website and issued an order to its clients not to use it further. At the same time, Reuters disagrees that it misrepresented the facts when it published the video. The agency said it had studied the published materials and "found no reason to believe that Reuters' longstanding commitment to the principles of accurate and impartial journalism had been violated."
We recall that on September 3, during the broadcast of the military parade in Beijing, the CTC microphone recorded a dialog between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. As they walked to the podium at the parade, the Chinese leader's interpreter could be heard translating his words into Russian:
"In the past, people rarely lived to be 70 years old, but now at 70 you are still a child."
Then came Putin's reply, which was translated into Chinese by his interpreter: "Biotechnology is constantly developing." After an unintelligible reply, Putin's translator said: "Human organs can be transplanted all the time. The longer you live, the younger you become, and [you can] even achieve immortality."
See responded in Chinese: "Some predict that in this century people can live up to 150 years."
While speaking to reporters following a trip to China on Wednesday, Putin confirmed that there had been such a dialog.
"Yes, yes, when we went to the parade, Chairman [Xi Jinping] talked about it. This topic was once actively developed by Mr. [Silvio] Berlusconi. Well, yes, modern means of recovery, medicine, even surgical things related to organ replacement, allow mankind to hope that active life will not continue as it does today," Putin said.