Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney met with Chinese President Xi Jinping to bolster an economic partnership.
During the meeting, Carney declared, “Mine is the first visit of a Canadian prime minister to China in nearly a decade. The world has changed much since that last visit. I believe the progress that we have made and the partnership sets us up well for the new world order,” Newsweek reports.
“I’m extremely pleased that we are moving ahead with our new strategic partnership,” Carney added. “A partnership founded on five pillars will not only deepen our bilateral ties to the benefit of our peoples but will also, in my judgment, help improve the multilateral system, a system that in recent years has come under great strain.”
The economic plan includes a 50% increase in Canadian exports to China by 2030.
Attempting to explain his meaning of “new world order,” Carney told reporters that he believes “the world is still determining what that order is going to be.”
“What is going to govern global trade? What is the role of the [World Trade Organization] going to be? How important are bilateral deals, such as the one we’re developing?” he said.
“The multilateral system that has been developing these is being eroded, to use a polite term, undercut to use another term. So the question is, what gets built in that place?” Carney added. “Is it just on a bilateral basis? Or where do like minded countries in certain areas — like minded countries, just to be clear, it doesn’t mean you agree on everything … you will have different coalitions that are formed.”
