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As Carney set to meet with China’s Xi, here’s what to watch for – National TenX News
Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday at a summit in South Korea, where he intends to talk about “a much broader set of issues than trade.”
The leaders of Canada and China haven’t met formally since former prime minister Justin Trudeau visited China in 2017. One year later, the Canada-China relationship fell apart after Canada arrested a Chinese telecom executive at the request of the United States, and China responded by detaining two Canadian men, detentions Canada said were arbitrary.
Xi angrily confronted Trudeau at the G20 summit in 2022 and claimed his government was leaking information to media.
Here’s a look at what might be on the agenda for this week’s meeting:
Last October, Canada followed the lead of the Biden administration in the U.S. and imposed a 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles and other goods, alleging unfair competition.
China responded with tariffs of its own on Canadian canola products, seafood and pork products. China’s ambassador in Ottawa has said Beijing would drop these tariffs if Ottawa drops its electric vehicle levies. Some premiers have urged Carney to do just that, while Ontario has argued the measures are needed to help the auto sector navigate a green transition and American trade pressure.
The leaders are likely to discuss overall economic ties, including China’s imports of Canadian oil amid a trade war with the U.S. and efforts to boost the number of direct flights between the two countries.
Environmental collaboration
In September, Carney said Canada could “engage deeply” with China on energy and basic manufacturing, adding Beijing is “very sincere and engaged” on climate change because it’s “a country run by engineers.”
China is one of the world’s largest emitters but is also a leading source of clean technology. It partnered with Canada to host a United Nations biodiversity summit in Montreal in 2022, despite the heightened diplomatic tensions between Canada and China at the time.
In January, a federal inquiry declared that “China is the most active perpetrator of foreign interference targeting Canada’s democratic institutions” at all levels.
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The inquiry report said Beijing “poses the most sophisticated and active cyber threat to Canada” and CSIS says China “increasingly uses social media and the internet for disinformation campaigns involving elections.” During an election debate in April, Carney called China “the biggest security threat” facing Canada.
China has rejected these claims, saying they lack clear evidence and echo tropes about Chinese people as malicious actors.
Parliament passed a bill in June 2024 allowing for the creation of a foreign influence transparency registry to identify proxies working for other countries. Carney’s government has not yet taken steps to introduce this registry.
China executed four Canadian citizens in early 2025. Beijing said at the time all four were dual citizens and had been rightfully prosecuted on drug charges.
Abbotsford, B.C. native Robert Schellenberg has been on death row in China since 2019. Ottawa has called his sentence for drug smuggling arbitrary.
Opposition parties have urged the federal Liberals to grant honorary citizenship to Jimmy Lai, a prominent publisher detained under Hong Kong’s sweeping national security law.
In 2018, Beijing imprisoned Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, two Canadian citizens, and held them for more than 1,000 days — the duration of Canada’s house arrest of Huawei executive
Meng Wanzhou who was wanted by American authorities over fraud allegations. In 2021, Canada launched an “arbitrary detention initiative” aimed at rallying countries against hostage diplomacy.
China has repeatedly reminded Canada of its “One China” policy, which holds that Beijing is the only representative of China and that Taiwan is not a country. Canada has still deepened business ties and security co-operation with the island.
Ottawa participates in naval exercises in the Taiwan Strait meant to signal the area remains international territory — exercises which particularly annoy Beijing. Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand has said while engagement with Taiwan is not going to end, Canada still adheres to its One China policy.
China calls itself a near-Arctic state and the country looks to develop shipping routes and natural resources in the region. “China is also active in Arctic research, much of which can be considered dual use … having both research and military application,” says the Arctic foreign policy document Canada released last December
The document says “Canada will co-operate with China to address pressing global issues — such as climate change — that have impacts on the Arctic,” but will carefully weigh any requests from China to do research in Canadian waters.
Anand recently declared China to be a strategic partner of Canada, three years after the government’s Indo-Pacific strategy branded Beijing as a “disruptive global power” whose values don’t align with Canada.
Anand said the purpose of this shift is to build a framework for dialogue with China, including on key issues where the two countries disagree.
Carney said this week that he and Xi will discuss “the evolution of the global system.” That might include discussion of efforts to end gridlock at the United Nations and to make it more reflective of the world’s population, or reforms to how developing countries take on debt to finance climate resilience projects.
Both leaders say they want to uphold the rules-based order and international trading system, though each country has a vastly different understanding of what that means.
China’s foreign ministry says Beijing wants to build ties with Canada through “mutual respect.”
“Although the two countries have different systems and development paths, they always share extensive common interests and a broad space for co-operation,” Beijing’s foreign ministry wrote in an Oct. 17 summary of Anand’s visit with her counterpart.
“China is ready to strengthen communication with Canada, enhance understanding, overcome disruptions, rebuild mutual trust, and improve bilateral relations with a forward-looking spirit.”
Carney is also expected to visit China in a year’s time when the country hosts the next APEC summit, a meeting that has almost always included the sitting Canadian prime minister over the past three decades.
A trip to the world’s most-visited museum is about to cost Canadians significantly more.
France has hiked ticket prices at the Louvre by 45 per cent for visitors from outside the European Union, a move that is fuelling debate over so-called dual pricing and the growing backlash against overtourism.
Starting this week, adult visitors from non-EU countries, including Canada, must pay €32 to enter the Paris landmark, up from €22. That’s an increase from about $35 to $52 Canadian.
Visitors from EU countries, as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, will continue to pay the lower rate.
The price hike comes as the Louvre grapples with repeated labour strikes, a high-profile daylight jewel heist last October that prompted a costly security overhaul, and years of chronic overcrowding. The museum attracts roughly nine million visitors annually.
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Some Canadian tourists told Global News they feel unfairly targeted.
“We didn’t cause the robberies or some of the other issues that happened and we are paying the consequences,” said Allison Moore, visiting Paris from Newfoundland with her daughter. “[In] Canada we don’t discriminate over pricing like that.”
Others argue tourists already shoulder higher costs simply by travelling long distances.
“In general for tourists, I think things should be a little cheaper than for local people, because we have to travel to come all the way here,” said Darla Daniela Quiroz, another Canadian visitor. “It should be equal pricing, or a little bit cheaper.”
Even some Europeans question the two-tiered system. A French tourist interviewed outside the museum said there was “no reason” to charge non-Europeans more and that the fee should be the same for everyone.
Tourism experts say the Louvre’s financial pressures help explain the decision.
“The Louvre is really cash-strapped right now and needs to do something,” said Marion Joppe, a professor at the University of Guelph. “It can’t really look to the government, which is already struggling with its own budget.”
The move also reflects a broader global pushback against mass tourism. Anti-tourism protests have spread across parts of Spain, New Zealand has increased its entry tax, and the United States recently raised national park fees for foreign visitors.
“You take Paris — it gets about 50 million tourists a year,” said Julian Karaguesian, an economist at McGill University. “That’s roughly a million a week. The city simply wasn’t built for those kinds of numbers.”
Despite the higher price, many visitors say they will still line up to see the Mona Lisa and other of the museum’s famous artworks.
“It’s one of the main attractions. It’s on everybody’s list,” Moore said. “We’re still going to go, and hopefully it will be worth it in the end.”
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Trump calls Canada-China deal ‘good thing’ as U.S. officials voice concern – National TenX News
Canada’s new trade deal with China is getting a mixed reaction in Washington, with U.S. President Donald Trump voicing support as administration officials warned Ottawa could regret allowing Chinese EVs into the Canadian market.
The deal signed with Beijing on Friday reverses course on 100 per cent tariffs Canada slapped on Chinese electric vehicles in 2024, which aligned with similar U.S. duties. Canada and China also agreed to reduce tariffs on canola and other products.
Asked about the deal by reporters at the White House, Trump said Prime Minister Mark Carney was doing the right thing.
“That’s what he should be doing. It’s a good thing for him to sign a trade deal. If you can get a deal with China, you should do that,” Trump said.
However, members of Trump’s cabinet expressed concern.
“I think they’ll look back at this decision and surely regret it to bring Chinese cars into their market,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said at an event with other U.S. government officials at a Ford factory in Ohio to tout efforts to make vehicles more affordable.
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told reporters the limited number of vehicles would not impact American car companies exporting cars to Canada.
“I don’t expect that to disrupt American supply into Canada,” he said.
“Canada is so dependent on the United States for their GDP. Their entire population is crowded around our border for that reason. I’ll tell you one thing: if those cars are coming into Canada, they’re not coming here. That’s for sure.”
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Carney has said it’s necessary for Canada to improve trade ties and cooperation with China in light of Trump’s trade war and threats to let the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on free trade expire.
The trade pact is up for review this summer, and Greer reiterated that the Trump administration wants to bring more auto manufacturing back to the U.S. and incentivize companies to do so.
Under the new deal with Beijing, Carney said he expects China will lower tariffs on its canola seed by March 1 to a combined rate of about 15 per cent.
Greer questioned that agreement in a separate CNBC interview.
“I think in the long run, they’re not going to like having made that deal,” he said.
He called the decision to allow Chinese EVs into Canada “problematic” and added: “There’s a reason why we don’t sell a lot of Chinese cars in the United States. It’s because we have tariffs to protect American auto workers and Americans from those vehicles.”
Greer said rules adopted last January on vehicles that are connected to the internet and navigation systems are a significant impediment to Chinese vehicles in the U.S. market.
“I think it would be hard for them to operate here,” Greer said. “There are rules and regulations in place in America about the cybersecurity of our vehicles and the systems that go into those, so I think it might be hard for the Chinese to comply with those kind of rules.”
Trump and officials like Greer have taken aim at Chinese attempts to enter the North American car market through Mexico by bypassing rules of origin under CUSMA.
The CUSMA review set for July is expected to address those loopholes that American and Canadian officials have said are being exploited by China.
Those concerns, which were also raised by the Biden administration, in part helped spur the steep tariffs on Chinese EVs, which are heavily subsidized by Beijing.
Trump, however, has also said he would like Chinese automakers to come to the United States to build vehicles.
Both Democrat and Republican lawmakers in the U.S. have expressed strong opposition to Chinese vehicles as major U.S. automakers warn China poses a threat to the U.S. auto sector.
Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno, a Republican, said at Friday’s event at the Ford plant that he was opposed to Chinese vehicles coming into the United States, and drew applause from the other government officials.
“As long as I have air in my body, there will not be Chinese vehicles sold the United States of America — period,” Moreno said.
—with files from Reuters
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Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trade mission to China is being framed as a win for British Columbia’s economy.
Carney announced a new deal with Beijing on electric vehicles and canola at the end of a high-profile trip on Friday.
“The inroads Canada has made this week are a sign that the government gets it and is showing Canadians and the world that we are open for business,” Alexa Young with the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority said.
The trade deal would allow up to 49,000 Chinese EVs into Canada yearly at a tariff rate of 6.1 per cent.
An expanded auto terminal on Annacis Island will be able to handle the additional volume of cars that could be more affordable than what is currently on the market, with prices expected to be under $40,000.
The New Car Dealers Association said in a statement to Global News that, “We look forward to reviewing the full details of this announcement and engaging constructively with governments to ensure that affordability, competition, and long-term market stability remain central considerations.”
In British Columbia, the overall reaction to the news on Friday is positive.
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“China’s economy is important,” Alex McMillan with the B.C. Chamber of Commerce said.
“Having trade deals like this — and diversifying our markets — is important. Providing certainty is important.”
There are concerns with the agreement, including privacy issues and China’s human rights record. But Ottawa’s goal is to double trade with partners outside the United States, which is a goal that would be impossible without China.
“We do want to see more trade and more diversification of our markets and know that China is an important nation and important economy, so having better trade relationships with them, I think overall is going to be good,” McMillan said.
–with files from The Canadian Press
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