Xi Jinping has angrily rebuked Justin Trudeau after Canadian officials\u00a0shared details of a previous meeting, highlighting the frosty relationship between the two leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a clip recorded by the media pool at the G20 summit in Indonesia, a visibly frustrated Xi pulls the Canadian prime minister aside and says it was \u201cnot appropriate\u201d for details about a previous conversation between the two leaders to have been shared with media, suggesting Trudeau lacked \u201csincerity\u201d in his approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEverything we discuss has been leaked to the paper, that\u2019s not appropriate,\u201d Xi says to Trudeau through a translator. \u201cAnd that\u2019s not the way the conversation was conducted,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The testy exchange came a day after government sources briefed that during a previous conversation on the margins of the summit, Trudeau had raised \u201cserious concerns\u201d with Xi over China\u2019s increasingly aggressive \u201cinterference activities\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Xi\u2019s irritation on Wednesday was a rare break with his normally carefully scripted public appearances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn Canada, we believe in free and open and frank dialogue and that is what we will continue to have,\u201d Trudeau said, interrupting Xi\u2019s translator. \u201cWe will continue to look to work constructively together but there will be things we will disagree on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gesturing with his hands, Xi told Trudeau the two must \u201ccreate the conditions first\u201d. The pair ended their conversation by shaking hands and leaving in opposite directions, with the Canadian prime minister looking chastened from the encounter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The uncomfortable exchange \u2013 and the previous conversation \u2013 followed repeated warnings from Trudeau and other officials that\u00a0China had attempted to undermine Canada\u2019s democracy. Canadian intelligence officials briefed parliamentarians in January that they believe China\u00a0interfered in the 2019 federal election, and media reports earlier this month alleged that Beijing had funded a\u00a0clandestine network of candidates. On Monday Canadian police\u00a0charged a researcher at Quebec\u2019s power company\u00a0with espionage for allegedly sending trade secrets to China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the first conversation, Trudeau\u2019s team said he and Xi also discussed Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, North Korea and the importance of the Cop15 biodiversity conference in December, where China and Canada will co-host nations in an effort to \u201cto protect nature and fight climate change\u201d, the source said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With relations still tense between the two countries, Trudeau was left out of any formal meetings with Xi \u2013 a diplomatic snub for the prime minister. The Chinese leader made time in Bali to meet with the US president, Joe Biden, in a closed-door meeting that lasted more than three and a half hours. Xi also met the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking to reporters after the tense interaction, Trudeau said not every conversation with Chinese leadership was \u201cgoing to be easy\u201d but added that Canada needed to be able to \u201cengage constructively and directly while at the same time be there to challenge on human rights and values that matter to Canadians\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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