By Maria Cheng<\/p>\n
BEIJING, Jan 15 (Reuters) – China is willing to deepen cooperation with Canada while eliminating “interference”, Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Canadian \u200bcounterpart at a meeting in Beijing on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The comments came after Prime \u200cMinister Mark Carney’s arrival in the Chinese capital on a four-day state visit, the first \u200cby a Canadian head of government in nearly a decade.<\/p>\n
Carney is set to meet Premier Li Qiang later on Thursday and President Xi Jinping on Friday.<\/p>\n
“China is willing to enhance communication with Canada, foster mutual trust, eliminate interference and deepen cooperation,” Wang, \u2060China’s top diplomat, told Canadian \u200cForeign Minister Anita Anand, who was part of Carney’s delegation.<\/p>\n
That would ensure two-way ties keep steady, substantive and robust, the \u200dCanadian prime minister’s office cited Wang as telling Anand.<\/p>\n
“We’ll make sure that we continue to make progress together in the short and the long term for the benefit of \u200bthe peoples of both of our countries,” Anand told Wang.<\/p>\n
Since a positive \u200cencounter in October between Carney and Xi in South Korea, the countries have shown a common desire to turn the page and reset ties following periods of tension in relations since 2017.<\/p>\n
The most recent instance of fraught ties was after former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government set tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles \u2060in 2024, following similar U.S. curbs.<\/p>\n
China retaliated last \u200bMarch with tariffs on more than $2.6 billion \u200bof Canadian farm and food products, such as canola oil and meal, leading to a slump of 10.4% in Chinese imports of \u200dCanadian goods in \u20602025, shown in customs data on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Re-engagement with China has also been fuelled by a push to diversify export markets after U.S. President Donald \u2060Trump imposed tariffs on Canada last year and suggested the longtime U.S. ally could become \u200chis country’s 51st state.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Maria Cheng; Writing by Ryan Woo; \u200cEditing by Jacqueline Wong and Clarence Fernandez)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Maria Cheng BEIJING, Jan 15 (Reuters) – China is willing to deepen cooperation with Canada while eliminating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[86257,49,48,95,2659,44,8581,77050,172709],"class_list":["post-410270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-anita-anand","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-mark-carney","tag-news","tag-president-xi-jinping","tag-prime-minister-justin-trudeau","tag-wang-yi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410270","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=410270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}