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I'm James Menendez.
And we're going to begin the program in China,
the first visit by Canadian Prime Minister for nearly a decade.
Relations have been strained in recent years,
but today it was all smiles as Mark Carney and the Chinese leader Xi Jinping announced what they called a new strategic partnership.
For the moment, it's mostly about forging a new trade deal.
This is how China's Commerce Ministry spokesperson, He Yongchan, put it.
Both China and Canada support economic globalization and trade liberalization,
and share broad common interests and enormous cooperation potential in the economic and trade fields.
Currently, China's expanding its high-level opening up,
proactively aligning with high standard international economic and trade rules,
and steadily expanding institutional opening up.
Among the proposals are, for example,