2026-01-16
26 分钟Cutting through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story.
This is the point.
Prime Minister Kani is in China on a four-day visit this week,
the first by a Canadian Prime Minister since 2017.
His office has caught the visit consequential and historic,
as Canada seeks to become less reliant on the United States and strengthen this relationship with China.
What impact will this visit have on China-Canada ties?
Can the two sides resolve their differences?
And how might this be viewed by the Trump administration,
which has openly called for Canada to become the U.S.'s 51st state?
Welcome to this edition of The Point with me, Liu Xin, an opinion show coming to you from Beijing.
Joining me today from Ottawa, Canada, Professor Gordon Holden,
Director Emeritus of the China Institute of the University of Alberta and a former Canadian Canadian diplomat from Montreal,
Julian Karagashian, lecturer of economics at McGill University,
from Guangzhou, southern China's Guangdong province, Liu Dan,
research fellow at the Centre for Canadian Studies at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies and here in the studio in Beijing,
Victor Gao, chair professor at Suzhou University.
The warmest welcome to all of you.
As we speak, not many details are still available of the meeting.
between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Kani.