China’s president, Xi Jinping, confronted the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, at the G20 leaders’ summit in Bali, Indonesia. The Chinese leader accused Trudeau of ‘leaking’ details of their diplomatic conversations to the media. ‘That is not appropriate,’ Xi’s translator relays to Trudeau during the tense exchange. Xi’s displeasure was probably a reference to Trudeau raising ‘serious concerns’ over suspected domestic interference by China in his first talks with Xi in more than three years. Tensions between the two countries have remained high since 2018, when Canada, at the request of US officials, arrested the Huawei Technologies executive Meng Wanzhou at a Vancouver airport
