{"id":381122,"date":"2026-04-04T05:16:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/381122\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T05:16:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:16:20","slug":"champagne-meets-with-top-chinese-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/381122\/","title":{"rendered":"Champagne meets with top Chinese officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!-x_C!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad88a1c9-59e3-41e9-856f-733a764ca93e_2384x1151.jpeg\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/ad88a1c9-59e3-41e9-856f-733a764ca93e_2384.jpeg\" width=\"1456\" height=\"703\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/ad88a1c9-59e3-41e9-856f-733a764ca93e_2384x1151.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:703,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:476167,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.junonews.com\/i\/193005621?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad88a1c9-59e3-41e9-856f-733a764ca93e_2384x1151.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a>Source: Facebook<\/p>\n<p>Liberal Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne was joined by several business interests, including Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s former company, Brookfield Asset Management, while meeting with top Chinese officials in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Champagne met with China\u2019s Vice-Premier He Lifeng in high-level talks. <\/p>\n<p>Conservatives have highlighted since before the last federal election that Prime Minister Mark Carney holds financial interests in Brookfield\u2019s success. The company holds investments in the People\u2019s Republic of China and has indicated it aims to increase investments in the world\u2019s second-largest economy.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/conservativebc.ca\/membership-jn\/\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"image-link image2 can-restack\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/2b4a71f9-7eac-48e6-b943-c6a345475d11_1600.jpeg\" width=\"1456\" height=\"291\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/2b4a71f9-7eac-48e6-b943-c6a345475d11_1600x320.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:291,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/conservativebc.ca\/membership-jn\/&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Source: Facebook Liberal Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne was joined by several business interests, including Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-381122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}