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Mark Carney has accepted an invitation from Xi Jinping to visit China after they sat down today for the first formal meeting between a Canadian prime minister and the Chinese President since 2017.

From Gyeongju in South Korea, Steven Chase reports that the meeting, which lasted nearly 40 minutes , yielded no concrete results, such as concessions, in a punishing trade war between Canada and China that is hurting Canadian farmers and fishermen.

The two leaders met on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit as Carney seeks new markets for exports to offset the economic damage that U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs are doing to Canada.

The encounter was far shorter than a Thursday meeting at

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