The hot mic moment of China and Russia’s top leaders musing about immortality through organ transplants speaks to more than their mutual desire to stay in power.
It touches on a sensitive topic for the regime—forced organ harvesting—the very mention of which Beijing has striven to erase even in the West.
In a country with longstanding concerns about the abuse, the off-the-cuff exchange—and the casual way organ transplants came up—was unsettling to Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), a lawmaker who monitors human rights abuses abroad.
“It shows how cruelty knows no bounds,” Smith told The Epoch Times….