Canada PM hails new partnership with China in wake of ‘new global realities’

Mark Carney held talks with Xi Jinping on Friday during rare Beijing trip as Canada seeks to diversify trade links away from Trump’s America

Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney hailed a “new strategic partnership” with China as he held talks in Beijing with president Xi Jinping on Friday, the first visit there by a Canadian leader in eight years.

Addressing Xi in the Great Hall of the People, Carney said that “together we can build on the best of what this relationship has been in the past to create a new one adapted to new global realities”.