President Xi Jinping of China engaged in productive discussions with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in Beijing on January 16, aiming to elevate their strategic partnership amid evolving global dynamics.
Xi highlighted that nurturing stable and healthy China-Canada relations benefits both countries’ core interests and supports global peace, stability, development, and affluence. He called on both sides to uphold responsibilities to history, their citizens, and the world by building a new-type strategic partnership. This would steer relations toward sustainable growth, enhancing well-being for people in China and Canada.
Detailing his vision, Xi suggested four partnership models: grounded in mutual respect, common prosperity, reliability, and multilateral synergy. He asserted that division renders humanity powerless against shared threats, with the solution rooted in multilateralism and forging a shared future for humankind.
Prime Minister Carney acknowledged the profound economic complementarities and aligned interests between the two nations. Canada, he said, is poised to forge a resilient, long-term strategic partnership with China. He reiterated multilateralism’s centrality to security and stability, committing to tighter coordination with China to preserve multilateralism, the UN’s prestige, and collective efforts for world peace.
The meeting’s outcomes could herald a new chapter in bilateral engagement, from resource trade to technological exchanges. In an era of uncertainty, this alignment reinforces commitments to open markets and cooperative governance, offering a model for other nations navigating similar terrains.