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Pierre Trudeau and Mao Zedong: Admiration for a Dictator and the ...

Yet in 1973, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau shook Mao’s hand in Beijing and declared him “one of this century’s greatest Chiefs of State.” Three years later, upon Mao’s death, Trudeau issued a statement praising the dictator for bringing “unity, order and purpose” to China.

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Pierre Trudeau, who championed establishi­ng diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China, meets Mao Zedong, the founder of the communist state. It is the first trip by a Canadian leader to the country since the Communist Party took power in 1949.