Prime Minister Mark Carney landed in Beijing on Wednesday for the first state visit from a Canadian leader in eight years, as Chinese state media called on Ottawa to lift tariffs on the nation’s exports.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is meeting with top Chinese leaders in Beijing on Thursday, hoping to repair a long acrimonious relationship as he pulls away from traditional ally the United States.

Trump says tariffs increase the amount of tax raised by the government, encourage consumers to buy more American-made goods and boost investment in the US. He wants to reduce the US trade deficit - the gap between the value of goods it buys from other countries and those it sells to them.

China is hoping President Donald Trump's economic and military actions against other countries will weaken the U.S.-Canada relationship.

Talks on reducing Chinese tariffs on Canadian canola are productive and continuing, even as Prime Minister Mark Carney landed in Beijing, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Wednesday. Mr. Carney, the first Canadian prime minister to visit China in eight years, arrived in Beijing Wednesday evening.

Amid pressure from the US, Canada and China are facing disagreement among each other, with the former imposing steep levies on Chinese electric vehicles and Beijing declaring reciprocal tariffs on agr

The eruption of imperialist barbarism epitomized by Trump’s Donroe doctrine urgently demands an independent political response from the working class in Canada, the United States, and around the world.

Several Canadian provinces, including Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia, yanked US wine and spirits from government-run liquor stores after Trump launched a trade war last year — a move that has cost American booze makers millions of dollars in lost sales, Bloomberg News reported.