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What’s at stake for Friday’s meeting between Carney and China’s Xi?
Canada seeks to ease tensions with China amid trade disputes involving tariffs on electric vehicles and retaliatory duties on canola, with total bilateral trade reaching $118.7 billion in 2024.
- On Friday Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Gyeongju at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit to recalibrate Canada-China ties after Canada was sidelined in U.S.-led trade talks.
- Tariffs and retaliatory duties have driven the split between Ottawa and Beijing, with Canada’s 100 per cent tariff on Chinese-made EVs prompting Beijing to impose duties on canola oil and meal and seed amid $118.7 billion total trade.
- CBSA reported it seized 4,300 litres of precursor chemicals from China in May, as part of Ottawa's over $355 million border-security plan to combat fentanyl.
- Carney tempered expectations by saying no preset deal exists and any EV tariff relief must wait until relations deepen, while Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and premiers press for tariff drops for farmers and fish harvesters.
- One day after Xi met U.S. President Donald Trump on Oct. 30, 2025, China's ambassador to Canada Wang Di said Beijing would lift canola tariffs if Ottawa drops EV levies, a claim Beijing did not confirm.
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Xi Jinping to meet Canada's Mark Carney, Japan's Takaichi after trade truce with Trump: What to expect?
Japan's new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was expected to convey to Chinese Premier Xi Jinping grave concerns over China's behaviour, including around the Senkaku Islands, known as the Diaoyu Islands by China.
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GYEONGJU — Chinese leader Xi Jinping was expected to meet Canada and Japan's new prime ministers for the first time on Friday, a day after agreeing to a trade war ceasefire with US President Donald Trump.
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