Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping while the pair are at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum later this week in South Korea.
Carney said the pair will discuss “a broad range of issues, both in terms of the commercial relationship as well as the evolution of the global system.”
The planned meeting comes on the heels of Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand’s visit to Beijing, where she met with her counterpart, Wang Yi.
“We’re in the process of a resetting of expectations of where the relationship can go,” Carney told reporters at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The meeting will mark a significant thaw in relations and the first time the leaders of the two countries have met formally since Justin Trudeau met with Xi during an official visit to China in 2017.
In December 2018, Canadian officials arrested Meng Wanzhou, who was the chief financial officer of telecommunications giant Huawei, at the request of U.S. authorities who were seeking her extradition to face charges there.
A few days later, Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were arrested in China and held in what the Canadian government said was an arbitrary detention.
What followed was years of deteriorating relations between the two countries.
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