ICYMI: COMMENTARY: Trudeau and the Red Dragon | SaltWire
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of a meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China Aug. 31, 2016. Reuters fileYvon Grenier, a political science professor at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, N.S., provided the following opinion article.
, because"Their basic dictatorship is actually allowing them to turn their economy around on a dime."My impression is that when he said that, in a spontaneous response to a question from the audience, he picked China without hesitation. But for the rest, he improvised.
As Alexandre writes in its very insightful preface, the two middle-aged men"wandered inadvertently into a serious place, frolicked a bit, observed all the strange and serious stuff that was happening," with"no preconceived notions about what they would see." Then Trudeau jumped into politics. One of the first order of business for him as a prime minister was to initiate negotiations that led to the establishment of diplomatic relations with China in 1970. He was the first Canadian prime minister to pay an official visit in 1973.
Alexandre remembers,"There was something puzzling about my father’s attitude towards China." Specifically,"Why did he not dwell upon the Tiananmen incidents with our Chinese hosts? He wasn’t simply being diplomatic, avoiding tricky issues. In private, too, he behaved in a distinct and subtle way towards China.
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