Mark Carney will visit China next week, the first trip to the country by a Canadian prime minister in more than eight years as he seeks to rekindle relations with Xi Jinping.
Mr. Carney, looking for new export markets because of an increasingly protectionist United States under President Donald Trump, is trying to patch up ties with Beijing after a severe diplomatic rupture and years of Canada barring state-owned Chinese companies from investing or operating here.
Does sucking up to Xi, the shieks and the globohomo impress the elbows up crowd? Maybe Trump can occupy the post nation state next week while Carney’s off glad handing.It’s expected Mr. Carney would later head to the Qatari capital of Doha in the Persian Gulf region, where he is seeking to coax wealthy investors to deploy their capital in Canada. The Prime Minister’s Office, however, could not confirm this stop as of Wednesday morning.
Mr. Carney is also expected to make a stop at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, but the PMO was unable to confirm this as of Wednesday morning.
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