Mark Pointing

Sittarin mekaedut on täällä. Talotäynnä mekalomaanisia tarjouksia. Ruokaa, juomaa, vaatteita, kosmetiikkaa, kodin elektroniikkaa. Tule tekemään herkullisia ja tarpeellisia löytöjä. Sittari hoitaa.

So we go to the streets, we protest and we don't care what will happen to us. Just before you go on Pune, you were not involved in the protest, you were just sort of observing this.

Mr Carney is also under pressure to boost trade without angering the US or compromising concerns about national security and human rights. Our China correspondent Stephen McDonald told me what the two sides were hoping to get from the visit. Relations have been so bad between Canada and China. Any improvement is a gain for them. So they'd be expecting it to be better. I mean it couldn't be any worse considering how frosty relations had been between Ottawa and Beijing.

But there are practical trade measures that they're talking about. So to give you an idea of some of the things that Mark Carney, who is by the way Canada's first prime minister to visit here since 2017, what he has been saying to Xi Jinping over the last hour at the Great Hall of the People. So both sides have described this meeting as a turning point for their two countries. Mark Carney said that they were forging ahead with this new partnership

that both sides could make historic gains, particularly in agriculture, agri-food, energy and finance, and this is what I believe we can do in the immediate future. So very optimistic from him, but also, you know, they have these meetings, often it's all symbolic, our two great countries, yadda yadda yadda, and everyone leaves feeling quite good about it.

But this is a pretty substantial delegation, which has come here from Canada, and we're being told that apart from these kind of big picture meetings, on the sidelines they are negotiating...

Well, to attempt to work out a way that China could sell more electric vehicles into Canada. And that means reducing tariffs on those cars, which Canada, just like the US and Europe, had placed on China's EVs, accusing Beijing of artificially propping up these industries. Now, if that can be worked out, China's going to buy more raw materials. China's going to buy more agricultural products from Canada. Now, why would that be important to Canada? Because...

Everyone can see that its relationship with its previous number one ally, the US, just across the border is kind of running off the rails at times with this unhinged government in the US putting tariffs on Canada despite their free trade agreement. And so Ottawa was looking around for other places to deal with. And even though you've got to send your goods all the way across the Pacific, a long way to China, this is a country with deep pockets.

Ja ainakin suurimmat parantumiset Suomessa voivat tarkoittaa paljon rahaa toisistaan. Niin se on se, mitä he haluavat. Kuinka vaikeaa se on saada?

Not so difficult to tell the truth, because really the cause of the tensions, those things have gone away. People will remember there were these two Canadian Michaels controversially thrown in prison here in response to Canada detaining Meng Wanzhou, a Huawei executive at the US's behest. Now all of that's been worked out. You know, so that...

considerable pressure and distrust that came from that period. Now that the Michaels have been released, now that Meng Wanzhou is back in China, well, they can, it's like enough water has gone under the bridge. So I think they can work things out. And what Canada is trying to do is to say, let's get back to how this all started. We were one of the first countries to recognise the People's Republic of China back in the 70s. It's a kind of bond like that that we need to focus on.