Soviet children gave the US ambassador a plaque of peace -hidden inside was a recording device that drew no power and gave off no emissions - it was activated when the KGB beamed a specific frequency to it and the feedback from it using fancy maths could give a realtime recording.

Actually throw away as in discard and leave behind in China? I thought the logical thing to do would be to put them into a faraday cage and inspect them later in a lab.

EU officials have to do the same when leaving the US

Standard Practice? Yes. News? No. Hacker News? Hell no!

Seems odd to “throw the items in a bin”. You’d more likely want to know who was given what, put each item in a sealed container, then analyze them later on. Unless you were dumb enough to think it was a bomb.

If I am not mistaken, isn't doing this an insult to China ?

Do me they could have put the items in a sealed maybe 'lead' box and examine them later.

Aren't there companies that issue burner phones and burner laptops for the same reason?

So what happens to the stuff after, I presume the embassy picks it up for processing, or it gets forwarded to US on another flight for processing, presumably some Chinese janitor is not going to have access to Rubios burner phone to resell.

I wonder if Tim Cook supplied burner phones.

Why did his non-news published by this perpetual rag make the front page?! Nuclear down-voting this.

Didn't China steal the F-22/F35/B2/C17 blueprints, and also stole COVID?

shouldn't they have been warned before even flying there?

I mean, the Chinese are probably ordered to do the same thing after a state visit to America

It should be SOP for any country's diplomats visiting another country.