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Ottawa’s Beijing Pivot: Reading Between the Lines of Carney’s China Reset

China Decoded – Special Briefing

Jan 17, 2026
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After nearly a decade of frozen relations, Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney stepped off the plane in Beijing this week, marking the first visit by a Canadian leader since 2017.​

What emerged wasn’t a romantic reconciliation, but a cold-eyed recalibration. From the “Two Michaels” hostage crisis of 2018 to the “New Strategic Partnershi…

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