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Mark Carney is flying to China next week to sit down with President Xi Jinping to get trade talks going again and try to pull Canada out of the economic pressure cooker Trump created. This will be the first time in nearly 10 years that a Canadian prime minister has landed in China. Last time ended in a disaster. Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou from Huawei back in 2018 on a U.S. warrant. China answered by detaining Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor. Nobody forgot. They only got out after Meng cut a deal with U.S. prosecutors in 2021. That broke everything. Now Carney is trying to fix it. Carney aims to fix trade fights and pitch oil and canola Carney’s not going for small talk. His team said he’ll talk trade, agriculture, energy, and security. Tariffs have been flying since last year. Canada raised taxes on Chinese electric cars, steel, and aluminum, just to keep pace with Trump. China hit back by taxing Canadian canola and other crops. That pissed off western provinces. Prairie leaders are accusing Ottawa of sacrificing farmers to protect factories in Ontario. The U.S. slapped 50% tariffs on foreign steel, and Carney followed up by cutting off Chinese steel shipments. It didn’t stop the bleeding. Carney now wants to double Canada’s exports outside the U.S. over the next ten years. China is already Canada’s second-biggest trade partner. In 2024 alone, they traded C$118 billion worth of goods. That number could grow if Carney gets this right. He met Xi back in October at the Asia-Pacific summit in South Korea. Carney called that meeting “a turning point” and said he was invited to visit. Since then, Canadian ministers have been making trips to China, lobbying for this Xi-Carney meeting. Carney juggles pipeline plans, tourism thaw, and Trudeau’s frozen…

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Filed under: News - @ January 7, 2026 3:26 pm