Putin Hebohkan Dunia dengan Aksi Mesra pada Ibu Negara China
Putin Wraps Blanket Around Wife of Chinese Premiere
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
Beijing (B2B) - Media internasional, termasuk media-media besar seperti CNN dan Sidney Morning Herald, ramai-ramai memberitakan aksi santun Presiden Rusia Vladimir Putin memakaikan mantelnya kepada istri Presiden Tiongkok Peng Liyuan pada sebuah acara KTT APEC yang baru saja ditutup kemarin.
Ternyata, menurut laporan media internasional itu, cuplikan foto dan video aksi Putin kepada istri Presiden Xi Jinping itu disensor karena membuat tidak enak hati para pejabat Tiongkok.
Los Angeles Times melaporkan, Putin yang berstatus duda cerai sejak 30 tahun lalu, tengah duduk di samping Peng Liyuan pada jamuan makan malam para pemimpin dunia Senin lalu di Water Cube yang dibangun untuk Olimpiade 2008 itu.
Ketika Presiden Xi sedang berbincang dengan Presiden Obama, Putin bangkit untuk mengambil mantelnya dan lalu mengenakannya ke bahu Peng Liyuan sebagai bentuk kesantunan yang biasa berlaku di Eropa.
Peng yang merupakan biduanita terkenal Tiongkok dan Ibu Negara Tiongkok paling glamor dalam beberapa dekade terakhir itu sempat menerima mantel dari Putin itu, namun beberapa saat kemudian menanggalkannya untuk berganti mengenakan mantel miliknya sendiri.
Semua adegan itu disiarkan langsung oleh televisi nasional CCTV, dan sang pembawa acara melaporkan bahwa "Putin baru saja menyampirkan mantelnya ke tubuh Peng Liyuan."
Cuplikan video itu dengan segera menyebar di Internet, namun dalam beberapa jam segera terhapus di media online Tiongkok karena masalah ini sensitif dan menimbulkan ketidaksukaan dari para pejabat Tiongkok.
Masalahnya, menurut Los Angeles Times, cuplikan video itu terlanjur diunggah ke YouTube sehingga semua orang bisa menyaksikannya.
Lalu muncul beragam komentar di Twitter, salah satunya menyatakan yang dalam bahasa populer di Indonesia berarti "Putin PDKT ke Peng Liyuan; Xi tak suka itu."
Beijing - Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have seemed to become fast friends in recent months.
Beijing, for instance, signed a $400 billion natural gas deal with Moscow that helped Putin avoid some of the sting of sanctions from the West over Ukraine. But an act of chivalry by Putin toward Xi’s wife at a summit in Beijing apparently has Chinese authorities seeing red.
Putin, whose divorce from his wife of 30 years, Lyudmila, became official this spring, was seated to the left of Xi’s wife, Peng Liyuan, at a dinner for world leaders on Monday night at the Water Cube, the aquatics venue built for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Xi was seated to Peng’s right. As Xi chatted with President Barack Obama, Putin pulled out a tan coat or cape from beneath the table and wrapped it around Peng’s shoulders (the venue was reportedly quite chilly).
After just a few seconds, Peng — a well-known singer who has become China’s most visible and glamorous first lady in decades — shrugged off the garment. But the moment, captured in a live broadcast on state-run CCTV, prompted the anchor to remark: “Putin has just placed his coat around Peng Liyuan’s body.”
The clip went viral on the Internet, but within hours was quickly pulled offline by China’s Web censors, who are particularly sensitive to anything untoward about national leaders.
But clips were uploaded to YouTube and other sites beyond the reach of Chinese sensors, allowing many people to watch the incident — and come up with numerous jokes and puns.
One wry commentator on Twitter, suggesting a possible headline for a story about the episode, wrote: “Putin (puts) the moves on Peng Liyuan; Xi doesn’t like it.”
Perhaps Putin can call or text Xi to apologize. The Russian leader presented Xi with a dual-screen Russian-made YotaPhone2 smartphone at the beginning of the summit.
