Even as Vladimir Putin was exciting gossip in Beijing this week by apparently flirting with China’s First Lady, Peng Liyuan, the Russian president was pushing ahead on three new fronts in his intensifying rivalry with the West.
On Wednesday, while the recently-divorced Putin sparked a stream of risque jokes on the Internet by wrapping a shawl around the shoulders of the wife of President Xi Jinping during an outdoor evening occasion in chilly Beijing, Moscow announced a new nuclear deal with Iran. News that Russia will build at least two civilian nuclear reactors in Iran comes as the Tehran government is …read more
Source: iPolitics
