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Putin tries to impress China's soft power
Chinese officials think he was trying to steal the soft power.
Off-color jokes about wife of Xi Jinping began to circulate about the real intentions of the divorced Russian president - a heartthrob among many Chinese women for his macho, man-of-action image.
That was too much for the Chinese authorities.
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, reflecting the intense control authorities exert over any material about top leaders while also pointing to cultural differences over what's considered acceptable behavior in public.
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