Obama gives Putin chilly reception at APEC summit in China

President Obama doesn’t take too kindly to being touched by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the start of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting.
ALEXEY DRUZHININ/AFP/Getty Images President Obama doesn’t take too kindly to being touched by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the start of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting.
It's not the Cold War, but a cold shoulder.
President Obama appeared to blow off Russian President Vladimir Putin during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit of world leaders on Tuesday.
The rebuff came as the two leaders entered a hall in a conference center near Beijing, China, with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
"It's beautiful, isn't it?" Putin remarked toward Obama.
"Yes," Obama agreed, avoiding eye contact in a manner watching reporters called cold.

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Obama gives Putin chilly reception at APEC summit in China
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It's not the Cold War, but a cold shoulder. President Obama appeared to blow off Russian President Vladimir Putin during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit of world leaders on Tuesday. The rebuff came as the two leaders entered a hall in a ...

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Anti-western rhetoric may be loud in Beijing but the Sino-US relationship remains the one to watch
Was this striking picture meant to symbolise the reshaping of the world? Attending the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Beijing this week, Barack Obama wore, along with other participants, a bright purple silky Chinese-style shirt. Here was the leader of the indispensable nation dressed in clothes tailored to mirror a post-western world, or rather, a very China-centred environment.
Obama is a president who has, from the start, been very amenable to the notion of global power shifts. Emerging countries have long claimed they have been denied a fair hearing in international affairs. When he first came to office, Obama spoke repeatedly about reaching out to adversaries, nurturing mutual respect and repairing the United States image. Even his biography pointed to a different way of doing things: a childhood partly spent in Indonesia, where his mother worked on development projects . Obama once called himself Americas first Pacific president.
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