Chinese President Xi meets Canadian Prime Minister Carney in Beijing as ties show signs of thaw

Описание: (16 Jan 2026)
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Beijing, China - 16 January 2026
1. Various of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Canadian officials walking into meeting room
2. Chinese President Xi Jinping speaking
3. Wide of meeting
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Carney, Canadian Prime Minister:
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“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 that will deliver stability, security and prosperity to our peoples on both sides of the Pacific.”
5. Various of Xi listening
6. Wide of bilateral meeting
7. Carney speaking
STORYLINE:
Chinese President Xi Jinping met Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday morning in Beijing, who is traveling to China on a four-day visit designed to repair foundering relations between the two nations.

Faced with new global challenges, the leaders of China and Canada pledged Friday to improve relations between their two nations after years of acrimony.

Xi told Carney that he is willing to continue working to improve ties, noting that talks have been underway on restoring and restarting cooperation since the two held an initial meeting in October on the sidelines of a regional economic conference in South Korea.

“It can be said that our meeting last year opened a new chapter in turning China–Canada relations toward improvement,” China's top leader said.

Carney, the first Canadian prime minister to visit China in eight years, said better relations would help improve a global governance system that he described as “under great strain.”

He called for a new relationship “adapted to new global realities” and cooperation in agriculture, energy and finance.

“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 that will deliver stability, security and prosperity to our peoples on both sides of the Pacific,” said the Canadian leader.

Those new realities reflect in large part the so-called America-first approach of U.S. President Donald Trump. The tariffs he has imposed have hit both the Canadian and Chinese economies.

Carney, who has met with several leading Chinese companies in Beijing, said ahead of his trip that his government is focused on building an economy less reliant on the U.S. at what he called “a time of global trade disruption.”

No announcement was made on tariffs between China and Canada, which is a sticking point in the relationship.

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