UBC professors Paul Evans and Yves Tiberghien spoke to CCTV, China’s national TV, about the relationship between Canada and China following Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to Ottawa.
“What Mr.Trudeau and his government is trying to say is that we need to live together,” said Evans (at 2:03 mark), a professor at UBC’s Institute of Asian Research and Liu Institute For Global Issues. “It’s not fundamentally a matter of changing China but living with China, and that’s a new story for Canada.”
Yves Tiberghien, director of UBC’s Institute of Asian Research, discussed the differences (4:40 mark) between Trudeau’s approach to relations with China and former Prime Minister Harper’s approach.
“Fundamentally Prime Minister Trudeau indeed carries on from where his father left, which is a vision that whatever differences Canadians may have with China on different issues, China is a central global player and one with whom we have to work and build bridges,” he said.
Evans also spoke to the Globe and Mail and Ottawa Citizen on the same topic.
