China’s Xi confronts Trudeau over media leaks in heated exchange caught on Camera

Bloomberg

Chinese President Xi Jinping confronted Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the Group of 20 summit, accusing him of leaking details of a private meeting — an unusually candid glimpse of Xi’s interactions with other world leaders.
“Everything we discussed was leaked to the newspapers. That’s not appropriate, and that’s not the way our conversation was conducted, right?” Xi told Trudeau through a translator. “If you are being sincere, we must communicate with mutual respect.” “If not, I’m not so sure how it will turn out,” Xi added, in a line the translator didn’t say to Trudeau.
Trudeau responded: “In Canada, we believe in free and open and frank dialogue, and that is what we will continue to have. We will continue to look to work constructively together, but there will be things we will disagree on.” Xi was dismissive, saying: “Let’s create the conditions first.” He then shook the Canadian prime minister’s hand and turned away.
The interaction was recorded by journalists accompanying Trudeau and posted to Twitter by a reporter for CTV National News. The clip wasn’t available on China’s heavily censored social media.
Xi’s comments to Trudeau shouldn’t be interpreted as criticism, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said Thursday at a regular press briefing in Beijing, adding it was “quite normal for the two leaders to talk to each other on the sidelines of G-20.”
She said China hoped “Canada will take concrete actions to create conditions for the improvement of bilateral ties.”