What did Russia's Vladimir Putin get China's Xi Jinping for his 66th birthday? Ice cream, of course.
Chinese President Xi Jinping celebrated his 66th birthday Saturday alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin, who surprised him with ice cream, the Kremlin said in a statement.
The two leaders met in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, where they were attending the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia .It marks their second meeting in just under a week, following an earlier appearance at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek.
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