In brief remarks before the start of his meeting with Carney, Xi spoke about the long history of co-operation and engagement between Canada and China. And he invited the prime minister for a state visit.<\/p>\n
\u201cChina is willing to work together with Canada to push China-Canada relations back onto a healthy, stable, and sustainable correct track at an early date, so as to better benefit the people of our two countries,\u201d Xi said in Mandarin Chinese, remarks that were later translated.<\/p>\n
Carney also acknowledged the two countries had grown estranged over the last several years.<\/p>\n
\u201cDistance is not the way to solve problems, not the way to serve our people,\u201d the prime minister said at the outset before the media was ushered out of the room.<\/p>\n
Meeting \u2018long overdue\u2019: PM<\/strong><\/p>\n Following the meeting, Carney stopped to say that he was pleased with the talks, which lasted 39 minutes, according to officials in the prime minister\u2019s office.<\/p>\n \u201cThis meeting today is long overdue,\u201d Carney said on his way to the APEC leaders dinner. \u201cWe now have a turning point in the relationship, a turning point that creates opportunities for Canadian families, for Canadian businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n He didn\u2019t go into specifics.<\/p>\n A readout of the discussion from the Prime Minister\u2019s Office said both leaders directed their officials to move quickly \u201cto resolve outstanding trade issues and irritants.\u201d<\/p>\n WATCH | Canada has little leverage in Chinese talks, expert says:<\/strong> As Carney meets Xi, Canadians ‘really don’t have a lot of cards’ against China<\/p>\n Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada vice-president of research and strategy Vina Nadjibulla says Chinese President Xi Jinping believes U.S. trade disruptions are giving China a global momentum, and says that Prime Minister Mark Carney will enter a Friday meeting with Xi with especially little leverage against a country that is difficult to negotiate with ‘on any day.’ <\/p>\n The statement went on to say they discussed \u201csolutions to respective sensitivities regarding issues including agriculture and agri-food products, such as canola, as well as seafood and electric vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n Major Canadian exports to China \u2014 especially canola, pork, and minerals \u2014 have faced recurring trade barriers.\u00a0<\/p>\n Last state visit was in 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n Over the years, a number of Canadian political leaders and federal policymakers have accused Beijing of using trade as leverage.<\/p>\n Canadian tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles have been another major frustration.<\/p>\n As for the olive branch of a state visit, Carney says he\u2019ll go.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Prior to Friday, the last formal, high-level contact took place when former prime minister Justin Trudeau met with Xi in Beijing in 2017, when Canada pursued, and ultimately failed, to secure a free-trade deal with China.\u00a0<\/p>\n Relations between the two countries have been deeply strained, defined by almost a decade of mistrust and sporadic economic engagement. <\/p>\n The major political rupture emerged with the 2018 arrest of Huawei tech executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver and Beijing\u2019s retaliatory detention of two Canadians. The episode hardened public and political opinion against China, which was further reinforced by allegations that Beijing sought to meddle in elections in Canada as well as the intimidation of diaspora communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opening the door to what he calls pragmatic and constructive dialogue, Prime Minister Mark Carney held a bilateral…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":345643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-345642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115469011676267963","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761917171_522_default.jpg\")
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets Xi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Dec. 5, 2017. It would be the last formal meeting between Canadian and Chinese leadership until Friday. (Sean Kilpatrick\/The Canadian Press)<\/p>\n