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Watch: Xi rips into Trudeau

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Justin Trudeau might be the self-anointed king of elite liberal opinion but it appears his methods find little favour with Beijing. Cringeworthy footage has now been released of President Xi Jinping dressing down the Canadian premier on the side-lines of the G20 conference.

The two leaders were caught on camera having an, er, lively discussion at the global summit in Bali today, with Xi tearing into the Prime Minister. A visibly irritated Xi confronted Trudeau about how details of an earlier meeting between them, which was held yesterday, had been leaked to the press by Canadian government sources.

The media reported that Trudeau had raised ‘serious concerns’ over suspected domestic interference by China during his first talks with Xi in more than three years. With a fixed grin on his features, Xi told him: ‘Everything that we discussed yesterday has been leaked to the papers and that’s not appropriate’ adding ‘that’s not the way the conversation was conducted.

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