Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tells Global News’ Mercedes Stephenson during a wide-ranging year-end interview that Beijing is “playing” democracies “off each other” through economic opportunities, but countries still must work with the Middle Kingdom. “We need to do a better job of working together and standing strong so that China can’t, you know, play the angles and divide us one against the other,” Trudeau says.
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