Travelers on Air Force One ordered to throw away gifts, phones after China trip

rationalist

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

jmclnx

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.

stronglikedan

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

NooneAtAll3

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

arbirk

EU officials have to do the same when leaving the US

z2

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.

benbojangles

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

Simulacra

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

tibbydudeza

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.

maxglute

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.

not_the_fda

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

gorgoiler

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.

calmbonsai

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