The Canadian prime minister was using his father’s playbook when it came to China. But the game has changed.
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When Justin Trudeau first visited China as Canadian prime minister, in August 2016, he brought along his seven-year-old daughter. It was a symbolic gesture, he told reporters in Beijing, because Justin himself had first visited China as a child when his father, Pierre, was prime minister.
“The friendship and the openness towards China that my father taught me, I’m certainly hoping to pass
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