EU officials have to do the same when leaving the US

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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