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Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s four-day trade mission to China has had a taste of it all, bouncing from Beijing, to Guangzhou, and on Saturday to the southwestern inland city of Chongqing.

Harper used a keynote speech here Friday to slam the “foreign money and influence” behind critics of Canada’s oil sands even as he welcomed Chinese investment in Canada’s energy sector.

Moments later, Harper tried to practice a little foreign influencing of his own.

On his third day in China, Harper publicly raised the issue of human rights here. Speaking to 600 Canadian and Chinese business people from Guangzhou and the Shanghai and Hong Kong chambers of commerce, he reminded China to respect human rights and be a “responsible global citizen.”

Canadians, he said, expect their prime minister to have a “good and frank dialogue on fundamental principles such as freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and freedom of belief and worship.”