Opinion: Why Xi bullied Trudeau but flattered Albanese | Peter Hartcher
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Once this had been exposed, Trudeau publicly denounced China’s “aggressive” foreign interference. Thereport also said that the Canadian Secret Intelligence Service had briefed Trudeau on the Chinese operation in January but that he’d sat on the information. The prime minister denied any such knowledge.Even if it’s true that Trudeau had no knowledge of this specific operation, this is no excuse. He’s been warned for years.
This is exactly what Beijing was doing in Australia. It was the reason that Malcolm Turnbull’s government legislated – with Labor’s full support, and to China’s great annoyance – theAnd Trudeau’s government had done very little about it. “This has been going on in Canada for 20 years since the CSIS named Chinese United Front interference in a provincial election,” says the Lowy Institute’s China expert, Richard McGregor.
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