Traveling to Beijing to meet with communist dictators Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un to commemorate the end of World War II, Russian President Vladimir Putin was caught on a hot mic with his Chinese dictator counterpart discussing the prospect of achieving immortality.

According to the Daily Mail, the macabre discussion included speculation from the pair that immortality could be achieved via "organ transplants and advanced medical procedures...."

The conversation between the pair took place via translators. From the Daily Mail:

"Xi told Putin via a translator: 'Earlier, people rarely lived to 70, but these days at 70 you are still a child'.

Putin responded: 'Human organs can be continuously transplanted. The longer you live, the younger you become, and (you can) even achieve immortality'.

Xi said in response: 'Predictions are, this century, there is also a chance of living to 150'."

The conversation would be less disturbing if there were not credible accusations that the Chinese, in particular, have been in the organ harvesting business.

As the Daily Mail noted "UN human rights experts said in 2021 they had credible information that minority groups were forced to undergo medical tests and organ harvesting without their consent."

Western Organ Harvesting

Allegations of organ harvesting have dogged the Chinese communist government for years. In 2024, News.com.au -- a major Australian news source owned by News Corp Australia -- reported on the story of Chinese detainee Cheng Pei Ming, who was first incarcerated in China for practicing Falun Gong in 1999. 

According to Cheng, during his eight-year sentence he was repeatedly tortured then, in 2004, was taken in for surgery where he said he was held down by guards and shackled to a bed. He emerged from that surgery with a long scar on his chest. Later, he escaped just before another "surgery" that he thought would likely kill him. Eventually, in 2020, he made his way to the United States. 

"American doctors who examined and tested him discovered that half of his left lung was missing, as well as two segments of his liver," News.com.au reported.

Sadly, organ harvesting only slightly less brutal than this has been occurring in the United States as well, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

In a press release on July 21, 2025, the department revealed that the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) had discovered "disturbing practices by a major organ procurement organization."

HRSA's findings after examining 351 cases:

• • 103 cases (29.3%) showed concerning features, including 73 patients with neurological signs incompatible with organ donation.
  • At least 28 patients may not have been deceased at the time organ procurement was initiated—raising serious ethical and legal questions.
  • Evidence pointed to poor neurologic assessments, lack of coordination with medical teams, questionable consent practices, and misclassification of causes of death, particularly in overdose cases.

"Our findings show that hospitals allowed the organ procurement process to begin when patients showed signs of life, and this is horrifying,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said in response to the findings. “The organ procurement organizations that coordinate access to transplants will be held accountable. The entire system must be fixed to ensure that every potential donor’s life is treated with the sanctity it deserves.”

Transhumanist Immortality

Whether taking place in Western countries or in Russia and China, the goal of the top levels of the internationalist leftist elite is replacement of biological human life with technologically achieved transhumanism. Billions of dollars are being invested into research and other activities that have as their end goal finding a way to cheat death. In many cases, these efforts can lead to therapies and treatments that can humanely extend life and treat disease. But, as the organ harvesting scandals in both China and the West demonstrate, there is a dark side to this agenda. 

Ultimately, the goal of transhumanism is to replace devalued and "imperfect" human life with something that is non-human and, perhaps, immortal, which would lead to the likelihood of a population deemed by the elites to be far too large. 

This has led one popular elite "public intellectual" to ask the obvious question, albeit one with distinctly dystopian overtones. "The most important question in 21st-century economics may well be: what should we do with all the superfluous people?" asked Yuval Noah Harari.

Non-transhumanists will most probably not like the answer.