Julia McFarlane
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503 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 16 Jan
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I'm Julia McFarlane, and at 16 Hours GMT on Friday the 16th of January, these are our main stories.
China and Canada announce a major strategic partnership.
Could this be the beginning of the end of Pax Americana?
We get the view from inside China.
In a separate development, the United States and Taiwan have reached a trade agreement that reduces import taxes on goods from the island, while increasing Taiwan's technology investment in the US.
And Myanmar has begun its defence at the UN's highest court against charges of carrying out genocide against its Rohingya minority.
Also in this podcast, people fleeing the deadly crackdown inside Iran offer a rare glimpse of the horrors suffered by those taking to the streets.
We hear about the history of weight loss drugs.
Donald Trump is fond of calling himself a great peacemaker, able to persuade foreign leaders to put aside their differences.
Well, a new trade deal agreed by Canada and China was not brokered by President Trump, but it may not have happened without him.
Relations between Beijing and Ottawa have plummeted over the past decade.
China has accused Canadian citizens of spying.
Canada has accused China of election interference.
But US tariffs have forced other countries, even its neighbour and close ally Canada, to seek out new partners.
Speaking in Beijing, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada had to adapt to a new reality.
The deal will see China export 49,000 electric vehicles to Canada at a preferential tariff rate.
And China will reduce tariffs on Canadian agricultural products like canola seed, commonly used in cooking oil.
Our correspondent in Beijing, Stephen McDonald, told us the agreement represents a major strategic shift.
Stephen, everything we've heard today has been very much within the narrative of mutual trade, but it seems striking that, and of course we won't have to remind listeners, that the US has made threats to Greenland, a NATO country, over what it sees as the Chinese and Russian threat in the Arctic.
Are there not security concerns if Canada, its neighbour, starts getting closer with Beijing, even if only so far on a trade basis?
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