{"id":1266606,"date":"2022-02-02T18:08:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T23:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1266606"},"modified":"2022-02-02T18:08:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T23:08:56","slug":"red-handed-obviously-my-family-has-historical-ties-with-china-how-beijing-bought-off-the-trudeaus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/red-handed-obviously-my-family-has-historical-ties-with-china-how-beijing-bought-off-the-trudeaus\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Red-Handed\u2019 \u2013 \u2018Obviously, My Family Has Historical Ties with China\u2019: How Beijing Bought Off the Trudeaus"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fred-handed-obviously-my-family-has-historical-ties-with-china-how-beijing-bought-off-the-trudeaus%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1266606&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Leftist Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has followed in his father Pierre\u2019s footsteps both in assuming the high office and using it to further the interests of the Chinese Communist Party,&nbsp;Peter Schweizer writes in his bestseller&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Red-Handed-American-Elites-Helping-China\/dp\/0063061147\/?tag=breitbart035-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\"><em>Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19724298\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19724298\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/two-innocents-in-red-china.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pierre Trudeau and Jacques He\u0301bert\u2019s communist China travelogue.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The book, which documents the cozy financial and political relations between the Chinese government and some of the most powerful people in the West, revealed decades of both ideological and financial ties between Beijing and the Trudeaus, beginning with the elder Trudeau visiting China in 1960 and meeting Mao Zedong, among other communist leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than being appalled by the Great Leap Forward, which was ongoing at the time, Trudeau and travel pal&nbsp;Jacques He\u0301bert left the country enamored by communism enough to write a propaganda book titled&nbsp;<em>Two Innocents in Red China<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Great Leap Forward killed as many as 45 million people and has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2016\/08\/03\/giving-historys-greatest-mass-murderer-his-due\/\">described<\/a> by the&nbsp;<em>Washington Post<\/em> as \u201cthe biggest mass murder in the history of the world.\u201d Yet it remained conspicuously absent in the narrative of&nbsp;<em>Two Innocents<\/em>. The book describes Mao as a \u201csuperb strategist\u201d and proclaims, \u201cit is these red-scarfed kids who in twenty years will be the New Men of a country which at that time will have a billion inhabitants.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In an interesting coincidence, the elder Trudeau\u2019s ideological fealty to communism,&nbsp;<em>Red-Handed<\/em> details, was also significantly profitable. Trudeau had benefitted from the support of businessman Paul Desmarais, the head of the company called the Power Corporation that specialized in building business ties to China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 1978, the Power Corporation formed the Canada-China Business Council with Prime Minister Trudeau\u2019s support,\u201d Schweizer writes, noting that the Canada-China Business Council was a key tool for Beijing to foster ties to powerful Canadian politicians to the benefit of the Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrudeau and Desmarais guided Canada\u2019s relationship with Beijing, with Trudeau as prime minister pushing closer relations with the regime while Desmarais cashed in on significant deals with Beijing\u2019s elite,\u201d Schweizer writes. \u201cWhen Trudeau retired from politics, he went to work at Power Corporation, further nurturing those deals and becoming wealthy in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19724010\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19724010\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/AP7310110171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1077\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinese premier Chou En-lai accompanies Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Mrs. Margaret Trudeau to greet the assembled welcomers at the airport in Beijing on October 11, 1973. (AP Photo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The elder Trudeau worked consulting Canadian companies on how to get rich in China, bringing business to the Communist Party in the process. These business ties were only possible because Trudeau spearheaded the establishment of diplomatic ties to Beijing, at Taiwan\u2019s expense, in 1970.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The younger Trudeau has similarly pursued policies in Canadian politics that enrich the Chinese government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2012,\u201d Schweizer reports, \u201che [Justin Trudeau] outlined his support for a controversial energy deal involving the Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation, which was seeking to acquire the Canadian energy company Nexen. There were concerns about the significant implications to national security and possible damage to \u2018Canadian interests and values.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau justified his support for the deal in part because, according to Schweizer, \u201cobviously, my family has historical ties with China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau also faced a barrage of criticism for depending on China for pivotal infectious disease supplies at the height of the first wave of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. Trudeau\u2019s government chose Chinese companies over Canadian ones to purchase masks, gloves, and other personal protective equipment. Outraging much of the population, Canada had to scramble to replenish its supplies of this equipment \u2013 buying it from China \u2013 because Trudeau <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2020\/03\/25\/canada-gave-away-medical-equipment-to-china-before-facing-shortages\/\">gave away<\/a>&nbsp;much of it in free \u201cforeign aid\u201d to China.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19724426\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19724426\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-609971752.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a conference of the Canada-China Business Council in Montreal on September 23, 2016, during the visit of Chinese premier Li Keqiang. (CLEMENT SABOURIN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trudeau\u2019s ties to China have, on occasion, stretched the limits of Canadian law. In 2016, for example, the&nbsp;<em>Globe and Mail<\/em> revealed that Trudeau had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2016\/11\/23\/justin-trudeau-cozies-communist-millionaires\/\">attended<\/a> a fundraiser in which he had a private conversation with Chinese businessman Zhang Bin, who then promptly donated one million Canadian dollars to the Pierre Trudeau Foundation. Zhang was, in addition to a businessman, a Chinese regime advisor, making him essentially a lobbyist for a foreign power.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of the strictly political, Justin Trudeau also appeared to receive financial and ideological support from Beijing. As Schweizer details, a Chinese state-owned publisher released a Chinese version of the younger Trudeau\u2019s memoirs,&nbsp;<em>The Legend Continues<\/em>, in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCuriously, some of Trudeau\u2019s national security aides were not even aware that the rights to his memoir had been sold to Beijing, not finding out until 2021, after being contacted by the media,\u201d Schweizer notes. \u201cTrudeau\u2019s aides would later explain that all profits from the book were going to the Red Cross. But the <em>Globe and Mail<\/em> newspaper could not confirm that claim with either the publisher or the Red Cross.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau\u2019s brother and foreign policy adviser Alexandre entered the family business of publishing books in China in 2016, the year after Justin became prime minister.&nbsp;<em>Barbarian Lost: Travels in the New China&nbsp;<\/em>was largely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/arts\/books-and-media\/book-reviews\/review-alexandre-trudeau-follows-in-his-fathers-footsteps-in-barbarian-lost\/article32020816\/\">sold<\/a> as an update to&nbsp;<em>Two Innocents in Red China<\/em>. At the time of its release, Schweizer documents, Alexandre used the book to compare the West unfavorably to the rule of the repressive Communist Party, asserting, \u201cI now look at our own freedoms with a little more circumspection and consider some of the irresponsible nature of some of the freedoms we enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leftist Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has followed in his father Pierre\u2019s footsteps both in assuming the high office and using it to further the interests of the Chinese Communist &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}