Smale, Alison. Romania Cool Toward Gorbachev's First Visit. Associated Press. 1987-05-25 [2019-10-21]. (原始内容存档于2018-02-14). Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and President Nicolae Ceausescu, who has openly attacked recent Kremlin reforms, greeted each other warmly today as Gorbachev began his first visit to this maverick East bloc nation. The two leaders embraced and kissed each other three times on both cheeks.
Chinese President Xi Jinping awarded Cuba's Jose Marti Medal. CCTV.com English. Xinhua. 2014-07-23 [2019-10-21]. (原始内容存档于2017-02-02). Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) hugs Cuban President Raul Castro after being awarded Cuba's Jose Marti Medal in Havana, capital of Cuba, July 22, 2014. (Xinhua/Ma Zhancheng)
Castro brothers' China complex. ChinaDaily.com.cn. Sina.com. 2014-07-23 [2019-10-21]. (原始内容存档于2018-02-14). Fidel Castro and then Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji hug each other on Castro's second visit to China on Feb 27,2003.
Nelson, Mike. Muammar Gaddafi. Getty Images. 1990-05-18 [2019-10-23]. (原始内容存档于2019-10-23). South African anti-apartheid leader and African National Congress (ANC) member Nelson Mandela (l) and Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi hug each other 18 May 1990 upon Mandela arrival to Tripoli.
Biers, Dan. Summit Stumper: Will Deng Hug Gorbachev?. Associated Press. 1989-05-15. Will they or won't they? The big question when the tightly orchestrated Soviet-Chinese summit between Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Deng Xiaoping begins is whether the leaders will embrace to symbolically end 30 years of strained relations.
Biers, Dan. Summit Stumper: Will Deng Hug Gorbachev?. Associated Press. 1989-05-15. When Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze visited Deng in Shanghai last February he received a warm and lengthy handshake, but no hug. Schevardnadze referred to the Chinese leader as "comrade," but the socialist honorific was not returned.
National Technical Information Service. Daily Report: People's Republic of China. United States Foreign Broadcast Information Service. 1989, (20-29). But the Chinese leader did not embrace Mr. Shevardnadze, as he usually does with visiting personalities from communist nations.
Radchenko, Sergey. Unwanted visionaries: the Soviet failure in Asia at the end of the Cold War. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2014: 166. ISBN 9780199938773. The main question of protocol, mulled over by the media, was whether Deng would bear-hug Gorbachev or offer him a handshake. This came under careful scrutiny of policy makers at the highest level. "Embracing might shock the world," Deng said with an eye to the West's reaction. Therefore, the Chinese protocol specifically provided for "handshake, no embrace" to highlight the new character of Sino-Soviet relations.
Sarkozy and Merkel inject new life into alliance. RFI English. Reuters. 2010-02-04 [2019-10-23]. (原始内容存档于2018-12-14). French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel kissing at the Elysee Palace in Paris on 4 February