Reveller Putin turns chivalrous for Xi’s wife!
12 Nov 2014 6:49 AM IST
It was a warm gesture on a chilly night when Vladimir Putin wrapped a shawl around the wife of Xi Jinping while the Chinese president chatted with Barack Obama. The only problem: Putin came off looking gallant, the Chinese summit host gauche and inattentive.
Worse still were off-color jokes that began to circulate about the real intentions of the divorced Russian president. The incident at a performance linked to this week’s Asia-Pacific summit originally was broadcast on state broadcaster CCTV and spread online as a forwarded video. But it was soon scrubbed clean from the Chinese Internet. But Putin messed up the script Monday night while Xi chatted with the American president. In the video, Peng stood up, politely accepted the gray shawl or blanket offered by Putin, and thanked him with a slight bow. But she soon slipped it off!
Worse still were off-color jokes that began to circulate about the real intentions of the divorced Russian president. The incident at a performance linked to this week’s Asia-Pacific summit originally was broadcast on state broadcaster CCTV and spread online as a forwarded video. But it was soon scrubbed clean from the Chinese Internet. But Putin messed up the script Monday night while Xi chatted with the American president. In the video, Peng stood up, politely accepted the gray shawl or blanket offered by Putin, and thanked him with a slight bow. But she soon slipped it off!
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