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Trudeau Referenced: China and Adult Excursion

trudeau referenced: He'd been to China before, of course as a child, with his father visiting on official political business but this trip was different, according to National Observer. The landscapes I got to see, the discovery of myself through travelling through China was extraordinary for me. He and his two friends didn't have tickets, but it didn't matter. ; It was wonderful, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this week in Beijing as he recalled his first adult excursion to the country. Trudeau referenced the formative influence of his backpacking experiences in China repeatedly this week as he tried to sell the merits of doubling the number of Chinese tourists next year. The attempt to create a tourism boon comes amid concern over a more malevolent form of cross-cultural influence a deliberate and unprecedented effort by Chinese President Xi Jinping to project the power of his country in ways that some say amounts to international political meddling. With his pursuit of free trade, it is one part of a major plan to deepen relations with the economically ascendant People's Republic, the country Pierre Trudeau established relations with the year before he was born. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.