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‘You can check if there’s a backdoor’: The time when China’s leader joked about espionage
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South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung (centre) presenting gifts to Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) after their meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Nov 1.
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Yan Zhuang
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SEOUL - It is an open secret that countries spy on each other. That is probably why world leaders almost never talk about espionage in public.
But over the weekend, it was the punchline of a joke between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his South Korean counterpart Lee Jae Myung.
