Canada PM hails strategic partnership with China to adapt to ‘new global realities’

Mark Carney (left) with Xi Jinping. The Canadian leader has sought to turn the page on testy relations with Beijing. Photograph: Sean Kilpatrick/Reuters

Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, has hailed a “new strategic partnership” with China as he held talks in Beijing with President Xi Jinping, the first visit by a Canadian leader in eight years.

Addressing Xi in the Great Hall of the People, Carney said: “Together we can build on the best of what this relationship has been in the past to create a new one adapted to new global realities.”