Chinese President Xi Jinping dressed down Justin Trudeau for allegedly leaking details of their private meeting to the press, in a remarkable exchange caught on camera at the G20 summit.

The two leaders met on Tuesday for the first time in three years, when according to reports, Mr Trudeau raised “serious concerns” over Chinese “interference activities” in Canada, including possible election tampering.

Within hours, details of the ten-minute conversation, which also included discussions on North Korea and the war in Ukraine, were credited to “a government source” and appeared on Agence France-Presse, an international news agency.

On Wednesday morning, Mr Xi confronted Mr Trudeau at the end of the summit in Bali, Indonesia and told him through a translator: “Everything we discussed has been leaked to the paper. That’s not appropriate.

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