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Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand, in Beijing to lay the groundwork for a meeting between Prime Minister Mark Carney and President Xi Jinping, says the two countries have reopened a communication channel that will enable them to stabilize ruptured relations and, hopefully, resolve a punishing trade dispute.

Steven Chase reports from Beijing that Anand spent two hours talking to her Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, during her first trip to China since being appointed Canada’s top diplomat in May.

She is only the second Canadian foreign affairs minister to visit China in eight years: a period that saw relations hit their lowest point in more than a quarter century.

The pair met at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in w

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