Trudeaus agreed to father's book being published by Chinese Communist-run company in 2005

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China experts suggested the 1960s book would likely be subjected to significant censorship

China experts differed Wednesday on why a publisher there would be interested in Two Innocents in Red China 50 years after the fact, suggesting it was either out of admiration for Pierre Trudeau — or to curry favour with his prominent sons.Neither offspring had entered politics by 2005, but speculation had been bubbling since Pierre Trudeau’s death in 2000 that one of them would make the plunge. Justin Trudeau did three years later.

But a leading China specialist at the University of British Columbia said it’s doubtful the offer to translate and publish Pierre Trudeau’s 1960s book had anything to do with trying to influence the Trudeau sons.Article content In fact, the Canadian business world and many politicians were at that time eager to exploit the burgeoning Chinese market. Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper made repeated, trade-focused trips to China after his election in 2006.Article content

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Imagine that, they hire a company in China to do a Chinese translation for a book

And this is news? Oh of course its the NP

¿What is new? That family are despicable and protected by the 'law of Canada' SHAME ON THEM!!

I hope you realize that many people use Chinese Commmnist manufactured phones and tablets.

And I wonder who agreed to your shitty 'articles' being published

Next issue of McCarthyism in tomorrow’s edition.

My microwave was produced by a Chinese Communist Party controlled firm - like everything else made in the PRC. Get a grip.

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