“They [China] tend to like us right from the beginning”.
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“And actually, there’s an opportunity here tonight – gentlemen, it’s 2016”.
“My government believes very much in the importance of investing in infrastructure, that is one of the reasons why we are looking very favorably at the possibility of joining the AIIB”, he said.
The appearance of world leaders in the Marvel Universe is rare although Trudeau’s late father, former Canadian PM Pierre Elliott Trudeau appeared in Uncanny X-Men #140 in 1979 and President Barack Obama memorably appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #583.
Trudeau told a joint news conference that prior to his trip, China-Canada relations had “somewhat lacked in stability and regularity”. Ambassador Guy Saint-Jacques highlighted those sticking points Wednesday after Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said Canada and China would soon launch a feasibility study on an eventual free trade deal.
Takeovers of Canadian firms by Chinese state-owned enterprises have proved highly controversial in the past.
Mr. Ma and Prime Minister Trudeau also witnessed the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Air Canada, the country’s largest air carrier, and Alitrip, Alibaba’s online travel booking platform, providing Chinese consumers with a range of travel and vacation packages, as well as visa application services.
“Tourism is a way in which countries build closer ties not just through governments and business but also through their people”.
China says it will lift a fast-approaching deadline to introduce rule changes on Canadian canola shipments that threatened to inflict damage on the multibillion-dollar sector.
They join heads of state who arrived a day earlier, including Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma – the only African member of the G-20. Chinese tourist travel to Canada rose 24 percent in the first six months of this year, helped by new direct flights to Montréal and Calgary. The Chinese government wants the contamination cut by more than half.
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Trudeau’s week-long official visit to China continued Thursday as he met with Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People.
