The Chinese consul general in Brazil openly mocked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, calling him a “running dog” to the U.S. government, and accusing him of ruining the friendly foreign relations between China and Canada. Li Yang, China’s highest-ranking diplomat in Rio de Janeiro, called Trudeau “boy” and a “spendthrift” in English on Twitter on March 28. “Boy, your greatest achievement is to have ruined the friendly relations between China and Canada, and have turned Canada into a running dog of the US.,” Li wrote on the social media site. The term “running dog” is a Chinese pejorative that refers to someone who curries favour with a more powerful, often antagonistic, force. The term is frequently used in Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda, especially during the Mao Zedong era, to incite national zealotry to fight against the Western democracies. “Those are fighting words, and lack specificity,” Charles Burton, former Canadian diplomat …