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Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) helps put a blanket on Peng Liyuan, wife of China's President Xi Jinping, as they watch watch a lights and fireworks show to celebrate Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' Meeting, at National Aquatics Center, or Water Cube, in Beijing, November 10, 2014. CHINA STRINGER NETWORK, REUTERS

BEIJING -- It was a warm gesture on a chilly night when Vladimir Putin wrapped a shawl around the wife of Xi Jinping while the Chinese president chatted with Barack Obama. The only problem: Putin came off looking gallant, the Chinese summit host gauche and inattentive.

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Worse still were off-color jokes that 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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"China is traditionally conservative on public interaction between unrelated men and women, and the public show of consideration by Putin may provide fodder for jokes, which the big boss probably does not like," said Beijing-based historian and independent commentator Zhang Lifan.

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Though famously derisive of the internet and many of the people who use it, Jeremy Paxman has broadened his post-Newsnight portfolio by writing for digital media darling Vice. The online-only article is about the first world war poet Wilfred Owens work being banned from the Guantnamo Bay prison library.

Paxmans piece along with articles from Melvyn Bragg, Irvine Welsh, John Pilger, John Le Carr and Frederick Forsyth, also on literature banned at the notorious US military detention camp form part of Vice Medias new Guantnamo Bay editorial project, the flagship of the companys website redesign.

Paxman, 64, who earlier this year presented a BBC docudrama on the war poet, writes in his Vice piece: I find it fascinating that Wilfred Owen is banned in Guantanamo. He is, famously, the great anti-war poet.

Yet by no stretch of the imagination can he be considered either malevolent or unpatriotic Funnily enough, many soldiers like his poetry very much.

Paxmans book The English has been passed as suitable in the detention camp, and former British Guantnamo Bay inmate Moazzam Begg once showed him the rubber stamp inside the cover of his copy.

The Guantnamo Bay project, Behind the Bars, will feature 30 pieces of original content and provide a rare insight into the lives of the people inhabiting one of the worlds most infamous, yet secretive, jails.

It will be led by long-form essays, drawings and satire. Shaker Aamar, the last British resident to be held in US super-max prison, on the island of Cuba, pens a satirical take on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as a fable about Colonel John Bogden.

Vice was able to gain access to the articles from detainees by working with the lawyers at Reprieve, a global non-for-profit organisation which represents many of the inmates.

Since leaving Newsnight, which he presented for 25 years, Paxman has joined the Financial Times as a contributing editor for the weekend issue, making his debut this weekend, writing an account of the mysterious death of Lord Kitchener, the war hero and British military commander in the first world war. Paxman will also anchor Channel 4s general election coverage next year.

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