{"id":75989,"date":"2026-01-17T11:36:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/17\/mark-carney-in-china-positions-canada-for-the-world-as-it-is-not-as-we-wish-it"},"modified":"2026-01-17T11:36:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:36:43","slug":"mark-carney-in-china-positions-canada-for-the-world-as-it-is-not-as-we-wish-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75989","title":{"rendered":"Mark Carney in China positions Canada for \u2018the world as it is, not as we wish it\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PM\u2019s visit to Beijing seen as a welcome reset to relations in a \u2018new world order\u2019 but critics worry what trade deal could mean for Canadian workers<\/p>\n<p>Mark Carney\u2019s trip to Beijing this week secured what he described as a \u201cpreliminary but landmark\u201d trade deal and a recognition \u2013 welcomed by Beijing \u2013 that countries are operating in a \u201cnew world order\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Carney\u2019s visit is the first time in nearly a decade that a Canadian prime minister has been welcomed in Beijing. It comes after years of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/12\/carney-heads-to-beijing-as-trump-america-first-agenda-forces-canada-into-trade-rethink\">deep freeze in the relationship between Ottawa and Beijing<\/a> that Carney wants to thaw, in order to reduce his country\u2019s precarious reliance on the United States.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/17\/mark-carney-in-china-positions-canada-for-the-world-as-it-is-not-as-we-wish-it\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM\u2019s visit to Beijing seen as a welcome reset to relations in a \u2018new world order\u2019 but critics worry what trade deal could mean for Canadian workersMark Carney\u2019s trip to Beijing this week secured what he described as a \u201cpreliminary but landmark\u201d trade d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5146,"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":[244,50,557,554,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-china","category-international-trade","category-trump-administration","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75989","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\/5146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75990,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75989\/revisions\/75990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}