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Canada PM hails strategic partnership with China to adapt to ‘new global realities’
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<p>Mark Carney holds talks with Xi Jinping on rare Beijing trip as Canada seeks to diversify trade links away from US</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://viewer.gutools.co.uk/business/live/2026/jan/16/uk-housing-highest-level-ftse-100-falls-commodity-market-business-live-news">Business live – latest updates</a></p></li></ul><p>Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, has hailed a “new strategic partnership” with China as he held talks in Beijing with President <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/xi-jinping">Xi Jinping</a>, the first visit by a Canadian leader in eight years.</p><p>Addressing Xi in the Great Hall of the People, Carney said: “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.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/16/china-canada-partnership-new-global-realities-carney-xi-jinping">Continue reading...</a>