Putin, China First Lady - Monday was a big day for different reasons. One of them was that in Beijing, there was an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). After it, rumors involving Russia's President and China's First Lady started.
Vladimir Putin, Russia's President, divorced this year after announcing it formally last year. Due to that fact, it's really not a shocking surprise that new connections in his love life are assumed.
Still, it is a shocking surprise that said connection is related to Peng Liyuan, China's First Lady. What started this supposed connection, though?
A simple gesture, really. Putin draped a tan coat on Peng Liyuan's shoulders and that was the action that triggered it. Less than five seconds later, assistants were taking the coat off the First Lady and providing another aid for her to get warm.
Hours after that, there were news showing this gesture filmed and calling it all sorts of things.
"The first unspoken rule of diplomacy might be 'Don't hit on the president's wife,' but Russia's newly single president Vladimir Putin seems to have missed the memo," was how Foreign Policy started describing the situation.
The gesture between Putin and China's First Lady got broadcasted on State Television and a voiceover from a CCTV simply stated due to it, "President Putin has placed a coat on Peng Liyuan."
After that, a hashtag with the same words went around Twitter, according to CNN. But the funniest detail of it all is that a lot of the overblow at the gesture disappeared by Today.
It seems that a censorship occurred. Still, questions remain as to which were the "intentions" of Putin by that gesture. Could it be, though, that he was simply trying to be kind?
This situation involving Putin and China's first lady truly shows how in Politics, every move is watched and analyzed.
