Zhou Enlai and Pierre Trudeau discuss Canada's overarching foreign policy positions and Sino-Canadian relations. Trudeau says that Canada wants to be "a strong country with a strong identity."
October 11, 1973
Meeting of Prime Minister Trudeau and Premier Zhou Enlai at the State Guest House (Diaoyutai)
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Zhou Enlai offers Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau an extensive history of the Chinese Civil War and Chinese Revolution. Zhou also comments on China's foreign policy positions toward and views on the Soviet Union, nuclear war, Bangladesh, revisionism, and great power hegemony, among other topics.
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- China--Foreign relations--France
- China--Foreign relations--Taiwan
- Nuclear weapons--Soviet Union
- Chinese Communist Party
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
- China--Foreign relations--Great Britain
- Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States
- Germany (West)--Foreign relations--Soviet Union
- China--Foreign relations--Japan
- China--Foreign relations--Pakistan
- China--Foreign relations--Soviet Union
- China--Foreign relations--Poland
- China--Armed Forces
- Cambodia--Foreign relations--Soviet Union
- China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
- China--Foreign relations--Portugal
- Cambodia--Foreign relations--China
- China--Foreign relations--Germany (West)
- Taiwan--International status
- Canada--Foreign relations--China
- Chinese Nationalist Party (Guomindang)
- China--History--Civil War, 1945-1949
- Canada--Foreign relations--Soviet Union
- China--Politics and government--1945-1949
- Taiwan--Foreign relations--United States
- China--Politics and government--1949-1976
- China--Economic policy--1949-1976
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
- Bangladesh--Foreign relations--China
- Bangladesh--Foreign relations--Soviet Union
- Bangladesh--Foreign relations--India
- China--Foreign relations--Ireland
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MG26-O19, vol. 151, file 151.4 (Ivan Head - Travel and Events - October 1973 - Prime Minister's Visit to China - Objectives and Substance - n.d., 1973), Library and Archives Canada. Obtained by James G. Hershberg.
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