Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggests that China is “exploiting” Western countries against each other

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said China is “smartly influencing” Western countries in their economic competition and trying to play them against each other.

“One of the challenges we face as a Western world is that we compete with each other,” Trudeau told Canadian television. world news. “We’re thinking about how to get Canadian beef into certain countries or markets more easily than Australian beef.”

“There is competition between friends because we are capitalist democracies and we are trying to do a good job, especially given the extraordinary economic potential of the emerging middle class in China,” he said.

“How can we get to that?” he said, without commenting on any specific measures taken by China.

He also urged Western countries to respond in a more united manner. “We need to work better together and make ourselves strong so that China doesn’t surround us and turn us against each other,” he said.

Difficult relationship between Canada and China

The relationship between Canada and China is frosty. This is due to the arrest of Meng Wanzhou in 2018. Wanzhou is the daughter of billionaire Huawei Ren Zhengfei and the chief financial officer of her father’s company. I became Accused Violation of US trade sanctions with Iran.

In retaliation for her arrest, China Canadian citizens Almost three years. The two were charged with national security. Even before Meng’s arrest, the two countries have repeatedly argued about China’s reputation in the field of human rights.

Recently, Canada and a number of allies, including the United States and the United Kingdom, announced a Diplomatic boycott The 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. The country’s reputation for human rights was also used as a reason.

“We see dozens of countries joining the issue of arbitrary detention, declaring in concrete terms that coercive diplomacy is unacceptable,” Trudeau said. “These types of initiatives make a difference.”

China unacceptable Earlier this month the interrupt series. The state claims it doesn’t matter anyway, because the officials behind the boycott calls were never invited.

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