Epoch Times - Xi and Putin's Hot Mic Moment on Immortality and Why It Matters: Joshua Philipp
Aired: 2025-09-16
Duration: 01:51


=== Hot Mic Moment (01:51) ===

[00:00:00]  Talking about this forced organ harvesting industry in China, you know, you and I have been looking at this issue for the better part of 20 years.
[00:00:10]  There's very few people out there aside from some of these key researchers that I think both of us know.
[00:00:16]  And this hot mic moment for me with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin talking about achieving immortality through continual organ transplantation.
[00:00:55]  That was a surreal moment that I honestly am still in a sense digesting many days after the fact.
[00:01:03]  What was your reaction?
[00:01:05]  I was shocked.
[00:01:06]  I mean, shocked, but also not shocked because, I mean, we knew it was happening.
[00:01:12]  We've known this is happening for a long time.
[00:01:14]  It was kind of that moment where you're reporting on a murderer and you know a crime has been taking place, and then you get a video clip of the murderer bragging about how they did it and how they're happy they did it.
[00:01:25]  Like it was that kind of moment for me.
[00:01:29]  And you know, Jan, I was actually thinking back.
[00:01:32]  I remember when I first started working for Epoch Times back in 2006, again, you know, almost 20 years, I remember you were one of the first people I met actually at Epoch Times.
[00:01:42]  You know, you were helping train some of the journalists.
[00:01:44]  And I think that was the same year that we broke the first stories on live organ harvesting in China.