Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday at a summit in South Korea, where he intends to talk about “a much broader set of issues than trade.”

The leaders of Canada and China haven’t met formally since former prime minister Justin Trudeau visited China in 2017. One year later, the Canada-China relationship fell apart after Canada arrested a Chinese telecom executive at the request of the United States, and China responded by detaining two Canadian men, detentions Canada said were arbitrary.

Xi angrily confronted Trudeau at the G20 summit in 2022 and claimed his government was leaking information to media.

Here’s a look at what might be on the agenda for this week’s meeting:

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