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Promote youth engagement to foster Canada-China ties
By Lynette H. Ong Sep. 7, 2016
Investing in building China literacy among our youth today will allow us to reap benefits for decades to come.
Cheng Hong, wife of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, greets Ella-Grace Trudeau, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau's daughter, as they watch, in Beijing, China on Aug. 31. PMO photograph by Adam Scotti
In his recently concluded trip to China, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has walked a fine line between balancing the national interest to engage with China, our second-largest trading partner and a rising superpower, on the one hand, and raising our concerns about its human rights and fundamental lack of freedom of expression on the other hand.
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