{"id":75933,"date":"2026-01-12T18:39:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/12\/carney-heads-to-beijing-as-trump-america-first-agenda-forces-canada-into-trade-rethink"},"modified":"2026-01-12T18:39:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:39:42","slug":"carney-heads-to-beijing-as-trumps-america-first-agenda-forces-canada-into-trade-rethink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75933","title":{"rendered":"Carney heads to Beijing as Trump\u2019s America First agenda forces Canada into trade rethink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s PM seeks to smooth over past ructions in relationship with China as trade war takes its toll<\/p>\n<p>During the final stretch of Canada\u2019s spring election campaign, Mark Carney told a debate audience that China was the country\u2019s \u201cbiggest geopolitical risk\u201d. He pointed to its attempts to meddle in elections and its recent efforts to disrupt Canada\u2019s Arctic claims.<\/p>\n<p>When Carney\u2019s government plane touches down in Beijing this week, it will be the first time a Canadian prime minister has been welcomed in nearly a decade. The trip, undertaken amid the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/jan\/10\/trump-territorial-ambition-imperialism\">rupturing of global economic and political alliances<\/a>, reflects a desire by Ottawa to mend a broken relationship with a global superpower that uses its vast and lucrative market to both woo and punish countries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/12\/carney-heads-to-beijing-as-trump-america-first-agenda-forces-canada-into-trade-rethink\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s PM seeks to smooth over past ructions in relationship with China as trade war takes its tollDuring the final stretch of Canada\u2019s spring election campaign, Mark Carney told a debate audience that China was the country\u2019s \u201cbiggest geopolitical ri&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":483,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,41,244,50,3275,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-canada","category-china","category-mark-carney","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75934,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75933\/revisions\/75934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}