Canada aims for respect in talks with China even as relations sour

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Ottawa will maintain a respectful relationship with China, International Trade Minister Mary Ng said Thursday, although she warned that Canada's biggest trading partner in Asia has changed.

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“China today is not the China of the past,” Ng told reporters in Bangkok where she is attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum meetings alongside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The PMO shared that Trudeau had raised concerns with Xi about Chinese interference in Canada. It also said their discussion included the Russian invasion in Ukraine, North Korea and climate change.

But another comment that was not translated into English in the moment had Xi say in Mandarin, “We should have conversations in a respectful way. Otherwise, the results can’t be predicted.”Theis the latest sign that Canada’s diplomatic relationship with China remains strained, even more than a yearThe two Canadians had been detained in China since December 2018, in what was largely seen as retaliationthe RCMP arrested Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou at the Vancouver airport on a U.S.

 

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