‘Not appropriate’: Xi caught on camera rebuking Trudeau
Al JazeeraThe Chinese president took the Canadian prime minister to task for alleged leaks of an earlier closed-door meeting. Chinese President Xi Jinping has chastised Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over alleged leaks of an earlier meeting at the G20 summit, in a rare public display of annoyance that was captured on camera. “And that’s not … the way the conversation was conducted, if there is sincerity on your part,” Xi said, at which point Trudeau interrupted and stepped towards the Chinese president. Asked later at a news conference about the exchange with Xi, Trudeau said “not every conversation is always going to be easy, but it’s extremely important that we continue to stand up for the things that are important for Canadians”. Guy Saint-Jacques, a former Canadian ambassador to China, told the Associated Press news agency that Xi probably wanted to send a message to Trudeau that Canada will not be allowed to dictate the terms of the two nations’ relationship and that Trudeau had better take notice.