Julia McFarlane

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.

Yksityisen kehityksen jälkeen Yhdysvallat ja Taiwan ovat saaneet rahoituksen, joka vähentää ilmastonmuutoksen tuotantoa, ja lisääntyy Taiwanin teknologian investointia Yhdysvallan kanssa. Ja Myanmar on aloittanut puolustuksen Yhdysvallan suurimmassa puolustuksessa, joka on käsitellyt, että se on käsitellyt, että se on käsitellyt, että se on käsitellyt.

Donald Trump is fond of calling himself a great peacemaker, able to persuade foreign leaders to put aside their differences. 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 neighbor 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. Canada can thrive in a new system, but to do so we must work at speed and scale to find new partners.

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 neighbor, starts getting closer with Beijing, even if only so far on a trade basis?

President Xi will no doubt be enjoying this. He's been treating today really as a giant storefront for China, saying he is open for business.

Stephen McDonald puhuu minulle Beijingista.

The two governments have been at odds over the production of semiconductor chips, a vital component of everything we need to power modern life, from smartphones to cars. Beijing, of course, views Taiwan not as a country in its own right, but as a breakaway province of China. And it's reiterated that it opposes any agreements that Taiwan strikes with other countries. Kerry Allen is our China media analyst.

There's very, very strong messaging in Chinese state newspapers saying that Chinese officials strongly deplore the agreement with the US and Taiwan. And they're calling on Washington to revoke the deal. And newspapers like the Global Times, which are normally very, very anti-US, are saying that they feel that Taiwan's government is selling out Taiwan to court Washington. And they're saying of the US that it's putting its own interests first and has no intentions of protecting Taiwan, say if there was an invasion.

That's very interesting. So is this more about just Taiwanese sovereignty? I mean, could China also be angry that the US might have an edge, a business advantage in the tech sector? I mean, China will absolutely be angry with the deal and the idea that Taiwanese firms like TSMC, major semiconductors firms, will be expanding their production capacity in the US. I mean, many analysts will see this as a strategic move in terms of the China-US artificial intelligence chip race.

Mutta minun täytyy sanoa, että kun puhutaan Taiwanin voimakkaudesta, niin tämä on viestintä, jota Kiina tekee hyvin vahvasti. Se kertoo, että Taiwan on osa kiinni. Tämä on viestintä, jota Beijingin jäsenet koko ajan käsittelevät. Se kuitenkin tekee kaikenlaisia interaktioita Yhdysvaltojen ja Taiwanin jäsenen kanssa.

diplomatic meetings between these as provocative, as ways of provoking China directly. I mean, in the past what we've seen is China has sent its military out encircling Taiwan and threatening military activity whenever there's been meetings between US and Taiwanese officials. Let's zoom out a little, Kerry. I mean, when you look at Chinese social media, what does the average Chinese citizen make of President Trump and his America First policies and how they are impacting the wider world?

Luulen, että he ovat muuttuneet paljon Trumpin ensimmäisestä presidenttiin. Viime aikoina Trump oli yleensä sellainen haluaa haittaa ihminen Suomessa. Ihmiset olivat usein kutsuneet hänet platformissa, kuten Sina Weibo, joka on China's equivalent of a platform like Facebook, Comrade Trump. Ja siinä olisi ollut paljon keskustelua hänelle. Ihmiset olivat usein puhuneet siitä, miten he ajattelivat, että Trumpin poliiseja silloin olivat todennäköisesti vahvistuneet Suomeen.

Mutta vastaukset ovat todella muuttuneet viime vuosina, kun Trump on aloittanut toisen vuoden. On ollut todella huomattavaa, että yksilöllisyys on yksilöllisyys, että Yhdysvallat haluaa vahvistaa toisia maita, erityisesti pieniä valtioita. Ja sosiaalinen media käyttää Trumpia myös paljon vahvemmin. Se on hyvin kriittinen. Hän on usein kuvattu mahtajana näissä platformissa.

People will say that he's looking to bring war to the world for his own selfish aims. So there's a really different messaging now. When people read about Trump, they actually feel quite passionately angry and quite concerned about whether he might bring war close to China, much as they see him doing in regions like Iran.

Kerry Allen. And for more in-depth analysis on this deal and what it means for the global economy, you can go to our Daily Explainer on YouTube. Just search there for BBC Global News Podcast. In our latest video, the BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam looks at how the global financial landscape has changed following Mr Trump's America First policies and worldwide tariffs.

The government of Myanmar has begun its defense against charges of genocide at the International Court of Justice, or ICJ, the highest court in the UN. The case is being brought by The Gambia, which has accused Myanmar of violating the UN Genocide Convention during a military operation against the Rohingya people in Rakhine State back in 2017.

Reid Brody is a war crimes prosecutor and member of the International Commission of Jurists, who's been following the case in The Hague. He spoke to James Menendez.

Kertoisitko meidät asioista, jotka tapahtuivat Rohingyaan? Tämä on nyt noin 10 vuotta sitten, eikö?