US orders travelers on Air Force One to throw away gifts, pins, and burner phones after China trip

After a Beijing summit, members of the U.S. delegation and accompanying reporters were required to surrender or discard items such as burner phones, credential badges, and lapel pins before boarding Air Force One. The article notes this was presumably for security reasons and speculates these items could have been bugged given concerns about Chinese espionage, but it presents no concrete evidence of a cyber compromise or technical indicators.