{"id":149437,"date":"2025-09-07T17:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T22:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldtribune.com\/?p=149437"},"modified":"2025-09-11T14:23:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:23:49","slug":"power-crazed-maniacs-axis-of-evil-chit-chat-in-beijing-spotlights-organ-harvesting-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/power-crazed-maniacs-axis-of-evil-chit-chat-in-beijing-spotlights-organ-harvesting-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Power-crazed maniacs\u2019: Axis-of-evil chit chat in Beijing spotlights organ harvesting in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>by<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong>WorldTribune<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Staff<\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>, September 7, 2025 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Real World News<\/span><\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>During the massive military parade in Beijing on Sept. 3, Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping and invited guest Vladimir Putin were overheard discussing advances in medicine that will extend life expectancy with a focus on organ transplants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarlier, people rarely lived to 70, but these days at 70 you are still a child,\u201d Xi said through a translator in Russian as he walked together to a dais with Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. Both Xi and Putin are 72. It&#8217;s not known if the conversation was translated for Kim, believed to be age 41.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_149438\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149438\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-149438\" src=\"http:\/\/worldtribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/putxisept3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"279\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-149438\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russia&#8217;s Vladimir Putin and China&#8217;s Xi Jinping at the Sept. 3 military parade in Beijing. \/ Video Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Putin then noted the life-extending advances in transplanting human organs: \u201cIn a few decades, as biotechnology continues to develop, human organs will continue to be transplanted and people will become younger and perhaps even achieve immortality,\u201d he said, speaking through an interpreter in Mandarin.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation shined a light on China\u2019s practice of harvesting organs from dissidents and prisoners, The Washington Times <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2025\/sep\/4\/xi-jinping-vladimir-putin-chat-medical-transplants-highlights\/\">reported<\/a><\/span> on Sept. 4.<\/p>\n<p>Abe Greenwald, executive editor of Commentary magazine, said the Xi-Putin exchange exposes the danger posed by the two leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sounds like a joke and lends itself to easy mockery about Putin and Xi being evil, power-crazed maniacs,\u201d he in a post online. \u201cBut the thing is \u2014 that\u2019s kind of what they are. And the hot-mic moment provides a clear window into their dangerous grandiosity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After hearing the Xi-Putin chit chat, New Jersey Republican Rep. Chris Smith, co-chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, called on the Senate to act on legislation he drafted targeting China\u2019s practice of forced organ harvesting.<\/p>\n<p>Under the pending legislation, anyone involved in illegal organ harvesting \u2013 brokers, suppliers, or recipient patients \u2014 would face 20 years in prison along with civil penalties, Smith said. \u201cThis is a gross, gross violation of human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the Senate, Sen. Tom Cotton, Arkansas Republican, has supported bills targeting forced organ harvesting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is growing evidence that the Chinese Communist Party has and continues to harvest organs from persecuted religious groups, prisoners of conscience, and inmates,\u201d Cotton said in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The House bill is currently awaiting action before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Smith said the Xi-Putin conversation has generated new support for his bill that he said has the backing of the White House. The bill is called the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by an international tribunal of human rights experts, China is charged with \u201cacts of cruelty and wickedness that match the cruelty and wickedness of medieval torturers and executioners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Based on reports, thousands of innocent people have been killed as their bodies cut open while they were alive to harvest kidneys, livers, hearts, lungs, cornea, and skin and sold to transplant recipients.<\/p>\n<p>Testimony from a Chinese doctor who took part in forced surgeries said in one case a victim was still conscious while organs were removed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, this is really right out of Nazi Germany, Josef Mengele, it really is,\u201d Rep. Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>Organs are also taken from Muslim Uyghurs in western China and then sold to Middle Eastern countries where Muslims purchase organs from other Muslims, he said.<\/p>\n<p>In July, the online publication The Diplomat reported that China was building six new facilities for organ transplants in Xinjiang, populated mostly by Uyghurs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis massive expansion in Xinjiang \u2014 a region already under scrutiny for systematic repression \u2014 raises deeply troubling questions about where the organs will come from,\u201d said Wendy Rogers, distinguished professor of Clinical Ethics and chair of the International Advisory Board of the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/freepressfoundation.org\/fight-back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ad3434;\">Support<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/freepressfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Free Press Foundation<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by WorldTribune Staff, September 7, 2025 Real World News During the massive military parade in Beijing on Sept. 3, Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping and invited guest Vladimir Putin were overheard discussing advances in medicine that will extend life expectancy with a focus on organ transplants. \u201cEarlier, people rarely lived to 70, but these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":149606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,3,106,9,89,10,18,12,44,5],"tags":[643,6],"class_list":["post-149437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-exclusives","category-northeast-asia","category-rest-of-the-best","category-russia","category-top-stories","category-top-story","category-world-links","category-world-news","category-world-tribune","tag-power-crazed-maniacs-axis-of-evil-chit-chat-in-beijing-spotlights-organ-harvesting-in-china","tag-worldtribune-com","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149607,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149437\/revisions\/149607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}