Putin and China’s first lady collided on Singles Day

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Putin stole the limelight on Monday when at an Apec party he carefully placed a shawl over the shoulders of China's stylish first lady Peng Liyuan.  Ms Peng accepted the offer, but removed the shawl only seconds later
Putin stole the limelight on Monday when at an Apec party he carefully placed a shawl over the shoulders of China’s stylish first lady Peng Liyuan. Ms Peng accepted the offer, but removed the shawl only seconds later

Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s solicitous act of draping China’s First Lady Peng Liyuan in a shawl has become a social media highlight of the Apec summit. It also ignited Chinese forums on Tuesday, which was Singles Day.

Vladimir Putin has a special place among the cast of world leaders for the Chinese public.

Perhaps it is a legacy of the fraternal relations between the Soviet Union and Mao’s Communist China.

But it’s probably more about his macho strongman image, something generations of solemn Chinese leaders have not been noted for.

Mr Putin stole the limelight on Monday when at an Apec party he carefully placed a shawl over the shoulders of China’s stylish first lady Peng Liyuan.

A gracious Ms Peng accepted the offer, but removed the shawl only seconds later, replacing it with her own black jacket.

It was a fleeting moment but captured on live television and China’s internet users went wild for the gesture, posting the GIF image on their Weibo accounts.

One Weibo user (TuXiaonuan_sakura) lauded Mr Putin’s act, saying: “Well done, uncle Putin.”

Another user, “Happy Zhang Jiang”, also fell for the Russian leader: “Like Putin. He is truly a man. He is the heart throb for many women. Cool!”

Perhaps after seeing how the forums pounced on the moment, state TV stopped running that scene and there is no mention of it official state media.

But on Weibo and WeChat it is clearly what is making people talk and there has been little censorship so far.

Mindful of Russia’s vast gas resources, one user said: “The energy from Russia warms both China and Germany.”

Name: Putin Skills: Shawl-covering

This served as a reminder to China’s Weibo users that Russia’s “gallant” president had form. He once covered German Chancellor Merkel with a shawl at a previous G20 summit.

Others started posting short biographies online for the Russian president: “Name: Putin, Skills: shawl covering.”

Coincidently, 11 November is the so-called Single’s Day in China. Some wondered: “How come Putin is single?” Another quipped, “My mom is asking, how come Putin is divorced?”

Singles Day is China’s biggest online shopping day. It began as a holiday devoted to single people, an anti-Valentine’s Day.

On this day, then, some saw the shawl moment as an opportunity to offer advice to China’s singletons, who were exhorted to copy Mr Putin’s chivalrous advances: “Attention, for those considerate gentleman, please always remember to take blankets around.”

Another internet user re-imagined a conversation between Xi Jinping and Peng Liyuan: “Look, he is doing the same to every woman.”

But there was the occasional rebuke: “Shameful Putin. How dare you steal the limelight from Xi Dada [nickname for Xi Jinping]?”

 

BBC

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One response to “Putin and China’s first lady collided on Singles Day”

  1. Obama, Putin or Lao Tzu. You figure it out because if not….
    It’s already a done deal. The next US president will complete the job that only Jeb Bush can do. No need for him to be in the spotlight or do much campaigning when he knows he can use the same Deception that worked so well for his father and for his brother. After 9/11 they know they can do anything and get away with it. From the JFK assassination until 9/11 one hidden hand from Texas is ruling not only in this Country and with the next US elections it will make it official all over the World.

    It would only take one more trick of the tail and the Beast will have Humankind on its knees. Raised at the school of the CIA now he is master of Deception.

    Perhaps a few will still remember when George W. Bush told the terrorized US citizens to seal their windows with duct tape to protect from an imminent chemical attack. An irony like this could tell the whole story. The next day on the shelves of the stores all over the US there was no more duct tape for sale.

    All that is happening in our days is the prelude to enormous changes but even before discussing in regard of the possible remedy one must be clear about how we came to this point recognizing both physiognomy and origin of the threat.

    Since George H. Bush was CIA director, the US secret State agencies had played a double role to finally get to where we are today when every person is constantly monitored by NSA and other agencies not to report the information to the US Government but to feed with all data the embryo of a new superpower still kept hidden.

    In brief, here is how it came to possess all means and to know everything of everyone.

    In 1988 the ex CIA director was elected president although this was a US president like no other. His attention quickly turned to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait from where he personally benefited immensely in exchange for the protection of those tyrants and their oil while in the United States instead the president observed his son, Neil, to be the author of the largest robbery of its time, the “Savings and Loans” scandal. After a few years, the next largest robbery in history was Enron that financed the electoral campaign for his other son, George. Once he also became president, the son plotted the most infamous attack on US soil, 9/11, to begin the widest monitoring program ever conceived and to consolidate for 8 years the interest of one family above all. The day before 9/11 the Bush administration announced 2.3 trillion dollars missing from the US State Department and we have not heard anything about it ever since. Today that is the latest largest robbery of all time.

    In our days, a group of Zionists, like a hidden parallel government, with George Bush still today at the head of secret services in the US, UK and Israel, is the destabilizing force behind most terror events and with classified information at disposal and a private army is plotting what now would seem unthinkable to many. The spokesman for this group in the US Congress is John Mc Cain who reports the given orders weighing on the US administration. Incredibly, his picture taken with the chief of ISIS was recently found and reported by Senator Rand Paul.

    A World War and chaos everywhere have already been planned so that desperate people will soon invoke a New World Order without even knowing what that is.

    When Jeb Bush will be the US president, the next World War will be inevitable and also come by surprise.

    There is one Solution.

    http://www.wavevolution.org
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