4 days ago - On Thursday, Carney meets the Premier of China, Li Qiang, as well as the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China, Zhao Leji. On Friday, the prime minister is scheduled to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping ...

To forge a new Canada-China partnership, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, visited Beijing, the People’s Republic of China, this week. This marked the first visit to China by a Canadian Prime Minister since 2017.

2 days ago - Carney is in China as part of his effort to move past years of diplomatic tension with Beijing and double non-U.S. exports over the next decade. He's expected to meet with China's President Xi Jinping on Friday.

19 hours ago - Carney announced on Friday that Canada and China had reached a preliminary trade deal aimed at reducing tariffs, including a commitment to import 49,000 electric vehicles from China at preferential tariff rates.

1 day ago - It comes after years of a deep freeze in the relationship between Ottawa and Beijing that Carney wants to thaw, in order to reduce his country’s precarious reliance on the United States. Guy Saint-Jacques, a former Canadian ambassador to China, said: “The main goal of trying to reset or recalibrate the relationship with China has been achieved during this trip.” · That recalibration comes at a delicate moment for geopolitical alliances between North American countries and China. Canada PM hails strategic partnership with China to adapt to ‘new global realities’

11 hours ago - The first Canadian prime minister to visit China since 2017, Carney is seeking to rebuild ties with his country's second-largest trading partner after the United States following months of diplomatic efforts.

1 day ago - Carney described this as a "preliminary but landmark" agreement to remove trade barriers and reduce tariffs, part of a broader strategic partnership with China. "It's a partnership that reflects the world as it is today, with an engagement that ...

8 hours ago - In April last year, Carney was asked on the federal election campaign debate stage what he thought was the biggest security threat to Canada. ... Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said the change in tone between then and now was stark. “Prime Minister Carney must explain how he has gone from saying China was Canada’s ‘biggest security threat’ before the election to announcing a ‘strategic partnership’ with Beijing after the election,” Poilievre said in a statement Friday.

2 days ago - BEIJING — Canada is entering a "new era of relations" with China and the stage is set for talks on ways the two countries can become "strategic partners," Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday.

8 hours ago - Mark Carney's new deal with China — to lower tariffs on EVs, canola and other products — sparked fears that the U.S. would lash out at Canada. But President Donald Trump said the deal is a "good thing."

1 day ago - Prime Minister Mark Carney hailed Canada's improving ties with China as well as the leadership of President Xi Jinping on Thursday, declaring their nations were charting a new course in cooperation at a time of global division and disorder.

1 day ago - Prime Minister Mark Carney reached a deal with China to allow nearly 50,000 Chinese-made electric vehicles into Canada at a low tariff rate in return for big reductions in Beijing’s levies on canola seed and a promised elimination of its tariffs ...

9 hours ago - Prime Minister Mark Carney’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping has received wide coverage from Chinese media, featuring on most state-owned outlets’ front pages.

1 day ago - Prime Minister Mark Carney, who announced a deal Friday with China on a range of sectors, including canola and a tariff-quota arrangement on electric vehicles, took questions on the terms of the deal, what it means for Canada — and the ...

10 hours ago - Prime Minister Mark Carney says he has reached a "preliminary but landmark" deal with China to import 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles in exchange for lower canola duties. Canadian canola meal, lobsters, crabs and peas would no longer be subject ...

1 day ago - Xi hailed the "turnaround" in their relationship but it is also a win for Carney, the first Canadian leader to visit China in nearly a decade. He has been trying to diversify Canadian trade away from the US, his country's biggest trading partner, ...

3 days ago - Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for a critical three-day state visit during which he will meet with President Xi Jinping and seek to repair an important relationship that may be more vital now that the United ...