{"id":252014,"date":"2025-10-31T09:34:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T09:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/252014\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T09:34:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T09:34:21","slug":"as-carney-set-to-meet-with-chinas-xi-heres-what-to-watch-for-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/252014\/","title":{"rendered":"As Carney set to meet with China\u2019s Xi, here\u2019s what to watch for – National"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Mark Carney<\/a> is expected to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping<\/a> on Friday at a summit in South Korea, where he intends to talk about \u201ca much broader set of issues than trade.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The leaders of Canada and China haven\u2019t met formally since former prime minister Justin Trudeau visited China in 2017. One year later, the Canada-China relationship fell apart after Canada arrested a Chinese telecom executive at the request of the United States, and China responded by detaining two Canadian men, detentions Canada said were arbitrary.<\/p>\n

Xi angrily confronted Trudeau at the G20 summit in 2022 and claimed his government was leaking information to media.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a look at what might be on the agenda for this week\u2019s meeting:<\/p>\n

Last October, Canada followed the lead of the Biden administration in the U.S. and imposed a 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles and other goods, alleging unfair competition.<\/p>\n

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China responded with tariffs of its own on Canadian canola products, seafood and pork products. China\u2019s ambassador in Ottawa has said Beijing would drop these tariffs if Ottawa drops its electric vehicle levies. Some premiers have urged Carney to do just that, while Ontario has argued the measures are needed to help the auto sector navigate a green transition and American trade pressure.<\/p>\n

The leaders are likely to discuss overall economic ties, including China\u2019s imports of Canadian oil amid a trade war with the U.S. and efforts to boost the number of direct flights between the two countries.<\/p>\n

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In September, Carney said Canada could \u201cengage deeply\u201d with China on energy and basic manufacturing, adding Beijing is \u201cvery sincere and engaged\u201d on climate change because it\u2019s \u201ca country run by engineers.\u201d<\/p>\n

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China is one of the world\u2019s largest emitters but is also a leading source of clean technology. It partnered with Canada to host a United Nations biodiversity summit in Montreal in 2022, despite the heightened diplomatic tensions between Canada and China at the time.<\/p>\n

In January, a federal inquiry declared that \u201cChina is the most active perpetrator of foreign interference targeting Canada\u2019s democratic institutions\u201d at all levels.<\/p>\n

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The inquiry report said Beijing \u201cposes the most sophisticated and active cyber threat to Canada\u201d and CSIS says China \u201cincreasingly uses social media and the internet for disinformation campaigns involving elections.\u201d During an election debate in April, Carney called China \u201cthe biggest security threat\u201d facing Canada.<\/p>\n

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China has rejected these claims, saying they lack clear evidence and echo tropes about Chinese people as malicious actors.<\/p>\n

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Parliament passed a bill in June 2024 allowing for the creation of a foreign influence transparency registry to identify proxies working for other countries. Carney\u2019s government has not yet taken steps to introduce this registry.<\/p>\n

China executed four Canadian citizens in early 2025<\/a>. Beijing said at the time all four were dual citizens and had been rightfully prosecuted on drug charges.<\/p>\n

Abbotsford, B.C. native Robert Schellenberg has been on death row in China since 2019. Ottawa has called his sentence for drug smuggling arbitrary.<\/p>\n

Opposition parties have urged the federal Liberals to grant honorary citizenship to Jimmy Lai, a prominent publisher detained under Hong Kong\u2019s sweeping national security law.<\/p>\n

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China has repeatedly reminded Canada of its \u201cOne China\u201d policy, which holds that Beijing is the only representative of China and that Taiwan is not a country. Canada has still deepened business ties and security co-operation with the island.<\/p>\n

Ottawa participates in naval exercises in the Taiwan Strait meant to signal the area remains international territory \u2014 exercises which particularly annoy Beijing. Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand has said while engagement with Taiwan is not going to end, Canada still adheres to its One China policy.<\/p>\n

China calls itself a near-Arctic state and the country looks to develop shipping routes and natural resources in the region. \u201cChina is also active in Arctic research, much of which can be considered dual use \u2026 having both research and military application,\u201d says the Arctic foreign policy document Canada released last December<\/p>\n

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The document says \u201cCanada will co-operate with China to address pressing global issues \u2014 such as climate change \u2014 that have impacts on the Arctic,\u201d but will carefully weigh any requests from China to do research in Canadian waters.<\/p>\n

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Anand recently declared China to be a strategic partner of Canada, three years after the government\u2019s Indo-Pacific strategy branded Beijing as a \u201cdisruptive global power\u201d whose values don\u2019t align with Canada.<\/p>\n

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Anand said the purpose of this shift is to build a framework for dialogue with China, including on key issues where the two countries disagree.<\/p>\n

Carney said this week that he and Xi will discuss \u201cthe evolution of the global system.\u201d That might include discussion of efforts to end gridlock at the United Nations and to make it more reflective of the world\u2019s population, or reforms to how developing countries take on debt to finance climate resilience projects.<\/p>\n

Both leaders say they want to uphold the rules-based order and international trading system, though each country has a vastly different understanding of what that means.<\/p>\n

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China\u2019s foreign ministry says Beijing wants to build ties with Canada through \u201cmutual respect.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough the two countries have different systems and development paths, they always share extensive common interests and a broad space for co-operation,\u201d Beijing\u2019s foreign ministry wrote in an Oct. 17 summary of Anand\u2019s visit with her counterpart.<\/p>\n

\u201cChina is ready to strengthen communication with Canada, enhance understanding, overcome disruptions, rebuild mutual trust, and improve bilateral relations with a forward-looking spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carney is also expected to visit China in a year\u2019s time when the country hosts the next APEC summit, a meeting that has almost always included the sitting Canadian prime minister over the past three decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday at a summit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,95,2659,44,714,3275,9671],"class_list":{"0":"post-252014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-mark-carney","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-world","15":"tag-xi-jinping"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}