Recently, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the visit of Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly to Beijing from July 18-20 at the invitation of her counterpart, Wang Yi.
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| Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (left) and his Canadian counterpart met on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Germany in February. (Source: THX) |
On July 18, Canadian media reported that Foreign Minister Melanie Joly was in Beijing on an unannounced visit aimed at thawing relations between the two sides.
Since taking office in 2021, Joly has not visited China but met with Wang Yi in February of this year on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Germany.
This is the first visit to Beijing by a Canadian foreign minister in nearly seven years, and Joly is also the highest-ranking Canadian official to visit China since 2017.
According to the Canadian Foreign Ministry , during the visit, the foreign ministers of the two countries are expected to meet on July 19 to discuss global and regional security issues as well as "potential ways of cooperating to address common challenges."
A senior Canadian government official told CBC News that the meeting between the two foreign ministers was a "big step in the right direction" and "important" in its efforts to mend the deteriorating relationship between the two countries.
Relations between Ottawa and Beijing cooled in late 2018 following the arrest of Huawei CEO Meng Wanzhou in Canada and the retaliatory detention of two Canadians in China. All three have since been released.
Ms. Joly's trip took place just a week after members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), of which Canada is a member, issued an unfriendly statement targeting China, prompting a protest from Beijing.
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