September 22, 2016

"Chinese Premier Li Keqiang embarked on an official visit to Ottawa less than one month after his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau concluded his formal tour to Beijing. This is the first official trip by a Chinese premier in 13 years. Both countries agreed to establish an annual dialogue mechanism between the Chinese premier and Canadian prime minister at the end of August, and Ottawa announced its decision to join the China-initiated Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank earlier. The Beijing-Ottawa relationship is apparently warming up.

Under the efforts of Trudeau's father, then Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau, Canada was one of the first Western countries to establish diplomatic ties with China in 1970. Canada started to export wheat to China as early as the beginning of the 1960s in defiance of a US embargo. China is now the second-largest trading partner, second-largest source of imports and second-largest export market to Canada."

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