Putin & Xi's 'Friendly' Hug Riles Up U.S. Amid Russia-Ukraine War; White House Mocks Meet | Watch

A rare hug between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping during the Russian president's China trip has made the U.S. bitter. The White House joked about the meeting between the two presidents, with its spokesperson saying 'exchanging hugs is nice for them.' A video from May 16 went viral showing Xi Jinping extending his arms and embracing Vladimir Putin. Watch for more details.
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[@keeritijoshi3179]

One hug makes west vibrate, what a powerful hug 😂😂

[@mejjarsagent227]

And july Putin is visiting kim Jong😂😂

[@VirgoAtheist0971]

Japan is clearly captured… That country will bear the brunt just as Ukraine is beating now, as will South Korea and the Philippines… At least Vietnam, Indonesia and Cambodia have some common sense.

[@ntuthuzelontantiso5394]

😂😂

[@yellove484]

😂😂

[@yellove484]

😂😂

[@user-sv1or4ge1s]

That's Brotherly love,not promoting Homosexuality like the West

[@sonja91919]

Exactly.

[@astornews]

No, it's gay. Really, really gay.

[@cali_313]

@@astornewsyour whole generation is gey you 🤡

[@GegeDxD]

​@@astornews desperate?

[@Jx_confused]

​@@astornewsYes, they are really really happy

[@ArtofPapierMachie]

This hug is attack on American hegemony and his puppets

[@70AD-user45]

Agree. 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇷🇺🇨🇳 No more western imperialism.

[@LKBadder]

Yeah, you can hug your dear Zelensky 😜 Long live China , Russia🤗

[@IStandWithRussiaZOV]

Haven't you noticed every time they visit zelinsky his pants always end up on backwards 😭🤣🤣

[@mohammadpauzimushif584]

Ha..ha...this is a real joke. Just imagine Biden hugs Zelensky......nobody cares.

[@vicvac3920]

🇨🇳 ❤️ 🇵🇰

[@gtm9755]

Long live china? Rotten gated 东亚病夫

[@user-yb4yl8mv6d]

​@@IStandWithRussiaZOV штаны Зеленского цвета неожиданности 😂🇷🇺💪

[@MattVenezuela]

This wasn't the same kind of hugs western leaders give to each, this was a hug between two men who truly like and trust each other... this is how real men hug their real friends...

[@paulneufarn]

Yes , they can. 🇨🇳🇷🇺🍀👍💪 Good bye US - supremacy.

[@NatureWonders709]

😂😂😂poor dictatorships

[@Lionking65816]

Russia is poor😂😂

[@sweet6827]

Russia knows what a man and a woman is 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@PEXKaliapa]

Poor clown, dictator is American​@@NatureWonders709

[@Rabieh-jr5gb]

The Anglo West are unaffectionate and cold-hearted.

[@wolfeye325]

The whole eu clown world hugging zelky is ok😂😂😂 now your jealous

[@mengreat6982]

The only difference is the west treated Zelensky, Ukrainian people and the whole Ukraine are merely a pawn

[@eternalflame4184]

America always get jealous when two countries or two people met happily ...

[@epona1525]

Like Putin and Assad, right?.

[@Gulfnas1]

​@@epona1525 💯 sure

[@MgWynn]

Action speaks louder than speech. Well done, President Xi for hugging your best friend. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@ZafarIqbal-jl8yq]

USA is deeply concerned but not about palastine 😮

[@skywire5595]

Palestinian now experience untold suffering but western media try not to report

[@elitekoru6661]

USA： this hug is overcapacity🤣

[@user-go2fl1ow2k]

Indeed it is overcapacity hug​@@elitekoru6661

[@augustinelopez3880]

BULLIES CAN'T DICTATE TO A CROWD TIRED OF THEM NOR THEY KNOW WHEN IT DON'T WORK, ONLY AT THE TIME THEY ARE NO LONGER ALOUD TO ENTER THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND SEE THAT THERE WOULD BE CONSEQUENCES AND REPERCUSSIONS SINCE BULLIES ARE COWARDS AND ONLY PRAY ON THE OPPRESSED MEEK THAT NO LONGER RESIST AND THOSE WHOM RESIST THEY FEAR FOR BEFORE THEM THEY REVEAL THEMSELVES AND ARE KNOWN AS THEY REALLY ARE COWARDS FULL OF FEAR OF THEIR INFERIORITY BEEN REVEALED FOR ALL TO SEE THEY CAN ONLY RESORT TO THE TREATS OF VIOLENCE THE VERY THING THEY FEAR THE MOST IS OTHERS TO RECOGNIZE THEM FORE THEY ARE NO ONE IS ANY LONGER AFRAID OF THEM OR THEIR FRIENDS Ye Should Recognize The Dying Drowning Kicking Old X Empires Embassies and Allies That Refuse The Reality That The New Imperialist Club Members Try Modern Treats and Lures that No longer Work of Imposters" Nations Like Zionazis" of " Democracies" Dangerous to any Peoples or Nations that in it's Territories have One of their Embassies Racist Warmongers Actual Real Evidential Evil and Corporate Industrial Incentives for " DEVELOPMENT " Greed and Lack of Humanity Proven by their Warmongering Belligerent Oppressive Murderous Present World Conduct in all Aspects of their Relationship with Other Nations and Peoples Disregarding their Human Rights Independence Internal External National Environmental Interest Customs Choices and Laws. For this day's work, lords, you have encouraged treason and opened the prison doors to free the traitors. A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the carrier of the plague. You have unbarred the gates of Rome to him. Since they are the World Plague ...

[@arshadali2312]

The China + Russia axis. Bye-bye, US hegemony. A bright new day dawns for humanity.

[@vicvac3920]

Russia is in poverty....

[@pero33403]

And Iran + N. Korea + Syria + India + S. Africa

[@vicvac3920]

@@pero33403 All in poverty.....

[@kenwood2682]

​@@vicvac3920poverty is better than stealing from colonies

[@kaleeysmith8801]

@@vicvac3920 poverty like printed money from thin air, to buy resources from the whole world? That kind of poverty? ENJOY your tent cities.

[@salomiepieterse1785]

John Kirby is a disgrace

[@LoneWolf-qk9pl]

He's just a puppet...

[@TheRealBillBob]

Kirby mocking "two men hugging" and the press giggling like little girls, but they get flippant if you say something about gays in the US military.

[@BRNNTNT]

Putin and Xi hurt their feelings 🤔🤣😳🤢🤣

[@peterchin6759]

Does Joe need hugging? Zelensky is at his disposal to accomplish just that

[@Shakuni-wb4rp]

Zel is MSWorker for biden

[@chisomahamba379]

😂😂😂😂.

[@Dr.Mabuse44]

When Biden hugs Zelya, he intuitively doesn't take his wallet.

[@JoeyBozify]

Haha Zelensky will come and cuddle with Old Joe for few hundred million dollars!

[@MrAbklee]

Zelensky play dick openly. So Biden can help play his dick

[@SL-sl4on]

Russia+China+India💪💪💪

[@vicvac3920]

🇨🇳 ❤ 🇵🇰

[@junksails814]

leave Modi out - he wont hug Xi

[@TAR082]

Nightmare for USA 😂

[@musadube1647]

Who the hell on earth is John Kirby to question the hugging of two leaders!!!!!!!!

[@thucduyen9592]

He is a cl**wn aka admiral cars salesman LOL.

[@user-yp2wy2vs8i]

John Kirby is just an asshole

[@vicvac3920]

He didn't question anything....

[@LJC370]

​@@vicvac3920Your mommy questioned herself many times before she spread her legs for the plumber!😂

[@junksails814]

@@vicvac3920 The look on his face said it all - irritant

[@muhammedrahman7013]

2 Kings One World and 7 Billion Supporters! ❤️🇷🇺❤️🇨🇳❤️

[@user-yb4yl8mv6d]

🇷🇺🇷🇺💪💪❤️❤️

[@USDisdoomed]

The US is always irritated by Russia even if the hugs give them a sleepless night

[@Gulfnas1]

😂😂😂

[@johnnylim641]

That hug have caused the entire collective west and the G7 to go into panic mode. There are probably some politicians there that shit their pants. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@vincentsibanda7452]

What is wrong with hugging, can this be the government talking point really? US has a deep problem

[@TheRealBillBob]

Kirby mocking "two men hugging" and the press giggling like little girls, but they get flippant if you say something about gays in the US military.

[@Kingofthehill84]

Its a rare thing to see Asian people hugging one another in public unlike western people that love hugging and kissing in public 😂😅

[@TheRealBillBob]

@@Kingofthehill84 Actually it's only Recent that Americans started doing this. Only because the black rappers were the ones doing it first. Then Obama made it popular for political leaders to do it

[@Kingofthehill84]

@@TheRealBillBob It's a European things 😆 🤣 Arab people also does the same thing though

[@Gdb987]

@@Kingofthehill84it’s an American thing. South American more tho

[@jacqueline1150]

The hug that shakes the world. And it pissed the West.

[@johnuzoigwe7228]

Jealous 😂😂😂😂

[@stevencher9968]

Now that hug is the real security threat to US 😅

[@Thorium_2600]

That hug has signalled the unlimited cooperation between china and Russia. From now on, the gloves are off.

[@derek7959]

The US loves the International rules based order. Rules written by the US, for the sole benefit of the US, at the expense of all other countries.

[@KitJBenn]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️FROM 🇷🇺RUSSIA 🇷🇺 AND 🇨🇳CHINA🇨🇳 WITH ❤️LOVE❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@user-yb4yl8mv6d]

💪💪🇷🇺🇷🇺❤️❤️

[@nyerling5723]

America’s reckless animosity towards China and Russia has now created a Juggernaut.

[@GyawaliPrajwal-uk1zh]

When hug becomes more famous than my country In usa😂

[@janetg.1477]

Kirby isn't man enough to refer to Putin as "president." It's always "Mr." Putin. Kirby's a major loser.

[@mxl4345]

The hug that made the west "emotional damage" 😂

[@abdulkader-ek3iy]

I love to see them hug that's makes me very happy nodouth 👍.My All time favorite Leader President Vladimir Putin Uraa 💪🇷🇺

[@atomiss6595]

THE UNITED STATES OFF NOTHING🤣

[@adrianobonora9358]

Non è vero , offrono guerre per procura comprando pagliacci luder

[@derek7959]

No. ...of Warmongering, of Terrorism, of War Crimes.

[@satendravishwakarma4490]

@@derek7959 and Regime Change.

[@jawahar7493]

US thinks they are the Boss for Another Countries 😂😂

Looks like Kirby forgot his boss Biden hugging his master NetuNazi

[@rifmaffia]

Wisdom of the east🇨🇳 meets courage from the West🇷🇺. Unstoppable force

[@vicvac3920]

Russia is in poverty.....

[@extel7151]

@@vicvac3920 bbc told you that i guess

[@vicvac3920]

@@extel7151 HT & Wion did.....

[@carlossergiobevilacqua9547]

Why are you ruin that historical moment talking about what Kirby thinks about it?

[@peterlim1972]

Nothing wrong with a hug with a good friend.

[@LifeChangingMotivation450]

Lol but he didn.t joke when polish president huged zelensky or macron did ? 😂😂

[@vaisnavaoneday9223]

No confusion needed here from the west's side. They did that despite knowing their own gender 😂

[@multipolarworld.]

It's an issue now to have good relationships with others?

[@Joshpox]

Yes. China refuses to condemn the Russian invasion. To have a good relationship with Russia is immoral.

[@Toni-nc3cu]

TKO to ?

[@juderamnarine5617]

I wonder what the Americans think about a Sleepy Joe hug. Lol😂

[@cesarnopo]

He hugs little girls

[@nortontekana-ym7gg]

The jealous gf after that hugg😅😅😅 ooh my tummy.

[@richardarmstrong9590]

PM Modi commonly hugs, even grasps other world leaders.... Nothing is said. But Xi and Putin embracing is quite humorous, if for no other reason than to continue to flumox the west... 😂

[@ZafarIqbal-jl8yq]

Uncle Sam got stomach cramps and needs 1 trillion 💰💰 milltry budget 3:08 to relieve the pain 😂

[@michelfisher7346]

what you say when you are not invited to the gala of the year...pouting and eye rolling.

[@TheRealBillBob]

Kirby mocking "two men hugging" and the press giggling like little girls, but they get flippant if you say something about gays in the US military. 🙄🙄

[@qdvidzone1890]

China Russia 💌💌 from India 🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@vicvac3920]

🇨🇳 ❤️ 🇵🇰

[@AlexsandraKokoeva]

Kirby, you good, bro? He seems so nervous😂😂😂

[@eugeneemerick4359]

Thats some friendship there. Brotherly love, that something my country doesn't have with Xi or Putin. They never said anything about Obama giving hugs.

[@pablopina8924]

Yellen ,Blinken and probably Musk didn't get the Xi hug treatment.

[@stevenpoyner6058]

United States Of Sanctions

[@shaharommohdshariff9100]

When it concern USA,UK and NATO, before only Russian will have the last laugh but now Russian and China will share the last laugh.

[@vicvac3920]

Russia is in poverty.......

[@LJC370]

​@@vicvac3920Keep dreaming retaaard!😂

[@toyerabrahams9013]

Beautiful...

[@antonioribeiro2818]

US divide and rule tactics don't work with these two players

[@robertbaisagale1685]

US and your Anti Russian Alliance NATO Go and hug your comedian Zelensky that will make you feel a bit better 😂😂😂

[@humanity6174]

Something's burning..........oh it's USAss 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@user-cp4ue4zo2p]

NICE ☺️

[@LoneWolf-qk9pl]

A big Thank You U.S.A....For bringing China and Russia together !

[@IAmDeepSpace]

Make love not war!

[@McAi1234]

US studying all parts of Putin and Xi..... Hope they do research on Xi and Putin's hugs too.

[@delavan9141]

What an utterly ridiculous interpretation. Nobody in the US gives a flying fk whether or not these two, or anybody, "hugs." Dang, anyone got brains over there at HT?

[@golputdone7701]

Dua pemimpin dunia yang hebat... Salam dari indonesia❤❤

[@AircraftTech2024]

Jealous maybe 😂

[@ssrae-2229]

that hug can mirror the same hug Modi gave to Putin a few years back. In Moscow analysis Russia have 2 unbreakable bonds - India & China.

[@TomW-ks3gp]

India has been begged Elon musk and Putin to visit, now claims the grapes are sour.

[@angellim9465]

Its only a friendly hug. Don't be alarmed, Mr. Kirby! 😅😅😅😅😅

[@livestreamchicagoevents9987]

Dude why are we acting like 2nd grade kids … since when have we become so low. The whole US Govt needs a firmware update. We are not the version world is looking for… we have become obsolete.

[@vicvac3920]

Russia is in poverty....

[@balajisaravanankannaiah1191]

Bro Literally crying, Don't know why ?

[@PlumbuM871]

This is so... touching, bruh. 😥Let me hug you too🤗

[@harbhajandosanjh9856]

How long you can fool your own people?

[@sz5263]

A hug, an overcapacity hug, that is US national security concern.

[@maxkazzora4234]

For someone like Kirby saying it’s up to them as to what they do, it must be really riling for him to even be talking about it.🤣🤣🤣👍

[@vicvac3920]

He was questioned about it by a media reporter. He didn't bring it up and couldn't care less.

[@therealistOba]

Xi really loves Putin, i can remember Xi calling him, his best friend..❤❤

[@pelaubenson1230]

This should`nt even be a talking point but what else to exspect from juveniles!😎

[@Toni-nc3cu]

?????????????????????? oder Deine, Schwester ?

[@essoblue9288]

Xi & Mr Putin are proper human beings. The hug restores my faith in humanity. I see Mr Putin often sharing flower and laying flowers in respect. He always has time to chat and share tea and biscuits. And, he likes cats.

[@HaraldinChina]

Kirby's anger and jealousy alone was worth the hug 😂😂😂😂

[@user-mo8ec8fm7l]

ADMIRAL SQUID...BIG Liar ☦️

[@playthis5994]

kinda like biden and netanyahoo hugging. i misspelled that yahoo’s name on purpose

[@alrent2992]

It ok but it's, satanyahuu 😂

[@soiamheredealwithit]

if a chinese shows this much emotion, thats some serious stuff

[@bondinick1]

Beat hugs with dragon West gets jelly😔

[@Longcloud]

How many Western politicians have hugged Elensky?maybe you lost count?😅

[@bugattieb110ss]

As a Brit, I'm deeply ashamed of my country and our pathetic reliance on the U.S.

[@vijayaraghavansrinivasan5178]

All leaders of west hugged and kissed Mrs zelensky 😂

[@pyndapkhongkliam2941]

Yes they hug their partners but not like us huging our enemies

[@deadsmoke198]

@@pyndapkhongkliam2941 They don't hug their partners they "hugged" ms Z

[@atchanasanasee1429]

You could go for a hug too!!!!

[@shuhailmuhammad3540]

😂 becoming jokers.. these Americans..

[@alanalan2312]

It shows two against one! Which side is going to win this time?

[@IStandWithRussiaZOV]

It's hilarious watching them freaking out over Russia and China relations 😭🤣🤣

[@pumalee1997]

There are three great countries in the world.

[@Toni-nc3cu]

???????????????????

[@ArenAurelius]

No Bearhug for Blinken.

[@alrent2992]

A kick in the rear 😂

[@MACRONOne]

I mean who doesn't want to hug a bear at least one time in their life?

[@PaoliSenior750]

It's an earthquake for usa 😂

[@jarosawwieczorek3684]

🇨🇳🤝🇷🇺✊

[@audries5048]

So much respect for each other and the challenges ahead. Brilliant

[@desaussurebrewer2657]

Your interests are the "only" ones that matters?

[@swaransingh2827]

This is great moment! All world leaders should respect these sentiments of affection n solidarity.

[@LisaHype-yu2ed]

God bless Russia and China

[@vicvac3920]

People in China are budest....

[@user-cp4ue4zo2p]

❤❤🎉🎉

[@letsgobrandon33]

I love it❤

[@salimabubakar5824]

The table is turning 😂😂

[@vicvac3920]

Russia is in poverty......

[@khookeekeng]

Russian Military Prowess &Chinese Industrial Power❤

[@vicvac3920]

Russia is in poverty.....

[@user-cp4ue4zo2p]

Myself susankar Das from India, Bharat 😊❤❤