The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday edition that Mark Carney makes his first trip to China as Prime Minister this week with an agenda that would have seemed unlikely before U.S. President Donald Trump took office: warming relations with the communist state to a degree not seen in a decade, plus carving out a bigger role for Beijing in Canada's economy. The Globe's Steven Chase writes that during the 2025 election campaign Mr. Carney described China as Canada's biggest security threat. The pivot stems from the need to offset the damage from Mr. Trump's protectionist tariffs and to gain new capital investment. The Prime Minister will meet President Xi Jinping on Friday. Mr. Carney's short-term imperative in Beijing is a breakthrough in a punishing trade war triggered by 2024 Canadian tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles that prompted retaliation on Canadian agricultural products from canola to seafood. China's ambassador has made it clear Beijing would remove levies if Canada scraps the EV tariff. Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is joining Mr. Carney for a portion of his trip to China, the provincial government announced Monday, raising expectations of a deal involving canola or other agricultural exports to China.