{"id":75012,"date":"2025-11-03T19:29:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T10:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/03\/xi-jinping-cracks-joke-about-spying-with-phones-given-to-south-korean-president"},"modified":"2025-11-03T19:29:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T10:29:27","slug":"xi-jinping-cracks-joke-about-spying-with-phones-given-to-south-korean-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75012","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping cracks joke about spying with phones given to South Korean president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese leader says \u2018check if there is a backdoor\u2019 in reply to Lee Jae Myung\u2019s quip about security of Xiaomi devices  <\/p>\n<p>It would take someone with nerves of steel to joke about the security of Chinese smartphones in front of Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p>Step forward the South Korean president, Lee Jae Myung, who, after being given a pair of smartphones by the Chinese leader before their state banquet at the weekend, wondered out loud if the devices were secure.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/03\/xi-jinping-cracks-joke-about-spying-with-phones-given-to-south-korean-president\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese leader says \u2018check if there is a backdoor\u2019 in reply to Lee Jae Myung\u2019s quip about security of Xiaomi devices  It would take someone with nerves of steel to joke about the security of Chinese smartphones in front of Xi Jinping.Step forward the S&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4791,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,667,3332,2771,222,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-espionage","category-lee-jae-myung","category-smartphones","category-south-korea","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4791"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75013,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75012\/revisions\/75013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}