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By James Crisp
September 4, 2025 — 4.16am
Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un were caught on a hot mic discussing how people could live to 150 and even become immortal.
The three dictators’ discussion was caught on a livestream as they led a group of other non-Western leaders to watch a military parade in Beijing.
Live footage of the private conversation between the world leaders aired during Beijing’s military parade.Credit: AP
The despot rulers of China, Russia and North Korea talked about how biotechnology could result in humans living to 150 years old.
Putin then suggested that repeated organ transplants could even mean people living forever.
Xi, who is 72 years old, told Putin: “Earlier, people rarely lived to 70 – but these days, at 70 years you are still a child.”
Soldiers march during a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II.Credit: Getty Images
The Russian president, also 72, answered: “With the development of biotechnology, human organs can be continuously transplanted, and you people can live younger and younger, and even achieve immortality.”
Kim, a relative stripling at just 41, did not speak as the Russian and Chinese leaders discussed living forever, but smiled as he listened intently.
The video footage, from China’s state broadcaster, then cut to a wide shot of Tiananmen Square and the audio faded away.
Putin is known to be interested in anti-ageing science and has ties to Mikhail Kovalchuk, a 78-year-old Russian official said to be “obsessed” with staying young.
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Last year it was reported he ordered scientific officials to look into “3D bioprinting” to use lab-grown cells to print replacement organs.
Meanwhile, China’s extensive organ transplant program has been controversial, not least because it uses executed prisoners’ organs to supply hospitals.
Putin confirmed the conversation with Xi when reporters asked later whether he thought people could live to 150 in the future.
He said: “Yes, yes, when we went to the parade, the chairman [Xi] spoke about this.
“Well, yes, modern means of healing, medicine, even all kinds of surgery related to organ replacement allow humanity to hope that active life will continue differently than it does today.”
Putin claimed that the late Silvio Berlusconi, a friend of his and the former Italian prime minister, “actively developed this topic”.
Both Putin and Xi’s fathers lived to their late 80s.
‘Friendship without limits’
Xi, Putin, and Kim reappeared on camera mounting a viewing platform for a military parade to mark the end of the World War II. It was China’s largest-ever military parade, marking 80 years since China’s victory over Japan.
The meeting was the first time that Kim, Xi and Putin had met together. They watched as robot dogs, nuclear and laser weapons and drones were paraded in a warning to the West.
It comes after Xi hosted a summit of non-Western leaders and sketched out plans for a new world order to challenge the dominance of the US-led West.
Putin, a pariah in the West since his invasion of Ukraine, enjoys a “friendship without limits” alliance with Xi.
At the start of the parade, Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform: “May President Xi and the wonderful people of China have a great and lasting day of celebration.
“Please give my warmest regards to Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong-un, as you conspire against the United States of America.”
After the parade, Kim told Putin he would do “everything” he could to help Russia in Ukraine as the pair met for private talks in Beijing.
Putin said Kim’s soldiers had fought “courageously and heroically” alongside the Russians in their fight against “modern Nazism”, which the North Korean said was his “fraternal duty”.
The Telegraph, UK
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