Xi Quips About Backdoors During Xiaomi Phone Gift To Korea's Lee (yahoo.com)
(Monday November 03, 2025 @11:41AM (msmash)
from the not-the-onion dept.)
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- News link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/11/03/1523219/xi-quips-about-backdoors-during-xiaomi-phone-gift-to-koreas-lee
- Source link: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/xi-quips-backdoors-during-xiaomi-082948652.html
An anonymous reader shares a report:
> Chinese President Xi Jinping [1]joked about security backdoors while presenting a pair of Xiaomi smartphones to his South Korean counterpart, a rare moment of spontaneous levity captured during a week of tense trade negotiations with Donald Trump.
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> Xi, in South Korea to meet Trump on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, presented the pair of devices to Korean President Lee Jae Myung. In a video circulated on social media, Lee asked: "Is the line secure?" Xi chuckled, pointed at the gadgets and replied through an interpreter: "You can check if there's a backdoor." The two leaders burst into laughter.
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> The exchange was striking because the issue of security and alleged espionage is a sensitive one and a major thorn in US-Chinese relations. American lawmakers have raised the possibility that tech companies such as Huawei build backdoors -- ways to gain access to sensitive data -- into their equipment or services, something the firms have repeatedly denied.
[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/xi-quips-backdoors-during-xiaomi-082948652.html
> Chinese President Xi Jinping [1]joked about security backdoors while presenting a pair of Xiaomi smartphones to his South Korean counterpart, a rare moment of spontaneous levity captured during a week of tense trade negotiations with Donald Trump.
>
> Xi, in South Korea to meet Trump on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, presented the pair of devices to Korean President Lee Jae Myung. In a video circulated on social media, Lee asked: "Is the line secure?" Xi chuckled, pointed at the gadgets and replied through an interpreter: "You can check if there's a backdoor." The two leaders burst into laughter.
>
> The exchange was striking because the issue of security and alleged espionage is a sensitive one and a major thorn in US-Chinese relations. American lawmakers have raised the possibility that tech companies such as Huawei build backdoors -- ways to gain access to sensitive data -- into their equipment or services, something the firms have repeatedly denied.
[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/xi-quips-backdoors-during-xiaomi-082948652.html
vidya (Score:2)
by korgitser ( 1809018 )
Here's a video of the actual exchange: [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Dunno how much the laugh should be read as politeness, but seeing the two leaders in each others company in a rather laid back manner does not bode well for US ambitions in SEA.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHMExDS2wsI
In related news ... (Score:2)
by PPH ( 736903 )
... no NSA officials could be located for comment.
XI Already Owns Me Idiot (Score:4, Funny)
XIAOMI is acronym of XI Already Owns Me Idiot