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One of the last meetings on Mark Carney’s whirlwind tour of Asia may be his most important: a Friday sit-down with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The meeting is taking place as the Prime Minister seeks new markets to offset the economic damage that Donald Trump is doing to Canada.

Steven Chase reports that Carney’s tête-à-tête with Xi during the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit in South Korea will be the first formal get-together between a Canadian prime minister and the Chinese President since 2017.

Relations have been in a severe diplomatic chill since 2018, when Canada arrested a Chinese tech executive at the request of the United States, and China jailed two Canadians in response.

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