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Dear CCF readers, happy November! China-Canada developments are ramping up following both Carney and Trump meeting with President Xi last week in Korea. Furthermore, don't miss in this edition: the IPPNW and PSR
condemn US nuclear testing, and NDP MP Don Davies'
lecture on China-Canada relations given at UVic earlier this year is now up online. PS. We are still collecting responses for our
reader survey! Georgia
( georgiajinkelly@uvic.ca) CCF Communications Director
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In a lecture to Victoria University earlier this year, NDP MP Don Davies called for Canada to re-establish an approach to China that breaks away from the existing, overwhelmingly anti-China stance that politicians and the media have adopted since 2017.
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 | Published: October 31, 2025
Written by: Nadine Yousif
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Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney accepted an invitation to visit China extended by President Xi Jinping, signalling a "turning point" in the countries' relationship.
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Published: November 4, 2025
Written by: CBC
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Canada on Tuesday welcomed its reinstatement to the approved travel list for groups of Chinese tourists by Beijing, which comes days after Prime Minister Mark Carney met with Chinese President Xi Jinping, hailing a "turning point" in the relations between the two countries.
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Published: November 4, 2025
Building on recent high-level meetings between Canadian and Chinese leaders, Minister MacDonald met with senior government officials to raise Canada’s trade priorities and broaden opportunities for deepened cooperation.
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Published: October 31, 2025
Written by: Eric Reguly
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The auto sector’s salvation could lie in Chinese investments – and Hungary provides some insight.
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Published: October 30, 2025
Written by: IPPNW
As physicians and health professionals, we condemn any and all nuclear weapons testing and de-stabilizing posturing. Regardless of intent, President Trump’s statement is a dangerous escalation that threatens global security and undermines decades of disarmament efforts, including the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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| Date and time: Friday, November 14, 2025 from 5:00 PM PT to 6:30 PM PT
Event form: Virtual
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Keynote speaker Rev James Bhagwan, General Secretary of the Pacific Conference of Churches, will share how the Declaration for an Ocean of Peace, issued at the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) in September, was developed and presented and what the challenges are in effective implementation.
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Published: October 30, 2025
Written by: Da Wei
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Economic relations between the two countries are more fraught than ever. Yet the U.S.-Chinese relationship also appears increasingly resilient.
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 | Published: October 24, 2025
Written by: Connor Mycroft
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Randy Schekman, who won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 2013, also praised Hong Kong’s openness and “free spirit” compared with the mainland, while urging both regions to foster more creativity among youth.
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We will balance the number of new arrivals with the planned departure of international students and temporary workers as their status expires in 2025 and 2026. We have committed to reduce temporary resident volumes through departures, program limits, and lower immigration levels to less than 5% of the population by the end of 2027.
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Published: October 31, 2025
Written by: Inayat Singh, Anand Ram
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The move was announced at a G7 energy and environment meeting in Toronto on Friday, where countries discussed countering China’s overwhelming dominance of critical mineral production.
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 | Canada-China Focus invites full-time Canadian university students – undergraduate or graduate -- to apply for our Field Trip to China, in May, 2026. Insights from the experience in China will inspire academic discussions in Canadian classrooms on how Indigenous ways of knowing and being, within a decolonizing framework, can help create a global Ecological Civilization that can avert climate breakdown. See flyer
for more details!
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