Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeaurefused this Friday to describe the Chinese President, Xi Jinpingfrom “dictator”, as the American president did on Wednesday, Joe Biden although he added that China This is not democracy.

Trudeau at a press conference on the last day of the summit Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forumin English) in San Francisco, He limited himself to pointing out that “China is a one-party state. “I don’t think anyone would call it democracy.”

Faced with press demands for his resistance to describing Xi Jinping as a “dictator” as Biden has done, Trudeau responded that he did not want to get into the issue of “definitions” and that the fact was that the Chinese ruler was “not guiding democracy.”

“This is an authoritarian state,” Trudeau concluded.

Relations between Canada and China have fallen on hard times since Chinese authorities detained two Canadian citizens in 2018 in retaliation for their arrest in Vancouver (Canada) CFO Huawei, Meng Wanzhou.

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Relations between the two countries were further strained when Canadian intelligence agencies accused China of intervention At the elections Canadian Generals 2019 and 2021.

The Canadian Prime Minister insisted that despite the difficulties, Ottawa will try to continue to find ways to cooperate with China on common issues such as combating changing of the climate.

“We will work with China where we can, and in other areas we will compete with China, such as trade, diversifying Asian economies, or developing more robust supply chains for critical minerals,” he explained.

(EFE)