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MARK CARNEY AFTER ASIAN SUMMIT ... OCTOBER 2025

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Peter Burgess COMMENTARY

I am impressed by Mark Carney as the leader of Canada.

I became a 'landed immigrant' in Canada in 1967 migrsating from the UK. In the summer of 1960 and again in 1961,

I spent my summer vacations from Cambridge University in North America durimg 1960 amd 1961. The Cambridge Canada Club chartered two Boeing 70 aircraft from Air France to fly planeloads o Cambridge students from Lonon to New York in late May with return in mid-September.

I got a superb education at Cambridge ... but it was all put into a global perspective with my visits and work in Canada while still a student.

My adult career was enabled by my education and the adults in my life.

Peter Burgess
Transcript
  • 0:03
  • All right. Good. Uh we're still afternoon, right? Uh good afternoon, good evening. Bonjour. Um let me just
  • before I start, um I I would like to uh just pass on uh my appreciation the appreciation of the entire Canadian
  • delegation to our Malaysian hosts, particularly Dr. Ibrahim the prime minister uh for an extraordinary group
  • of meetings, extraordinary hospitality um which is going to continue for the
  • next few hours this evening. Um you know from our perspective a highly productive few days uh at the Azan uh summit here
  • in Koala Lumpur. Um, I've been joined uh by delegation including our Minister of
  • International Trade. Uh, and we have focused on building new partnerships and unlocking new economic opportunities
  • that will benefit Canadian workers um and their businesses.

  • 1:01
  • The opportunity
  • the system themerce fundamental
  • system.
  • On November 4th, our government will table the first federal budget,
  • our first federal budget, and that'll be our plan to protect our communities, our
  • borders, our way of life, our plan to build a stronger economy where everyone
  • has a chance to get ahead and our plan to empower Canadians with new opportunities, better careers at a lower

  • 2:04
  • cost of living. Central to those missions is our
  • intention to double our non US exports over the course of the next decade. That alone will generate $300 billion in more
  • trade, new orders for Canadian resources, Canadian industries, and Canadian expertise.
  • I chose my summit uh for my first visit as prime minister to Asia because the
  • Canada Azan relationship is full of potential. This is a region of nearly
  • 700 million consumers with a market worth over $5 trillion.
  • It's already Canada's second largest trading partner with over $260 billion in two-way merchandise trade alone. Yet,
  • even at those levels, it still only represents about 10% of our exports.
  • To build those exports, to double our non- US exports, our government is working to strike a series of new trade

  • 3:04
  • deals, including here in the Indoacific. In the past few months, we've signed new agreements with the United Arab Emirates
  • and artificial intelligence, with the European Union in defense and broader trade, with Germany in critical
  • minerals, with Mexico and agra food. We signed a free trade deal with Ecuador
  • that reduces or eliminates tariffs on the majority of Canadian exports. And last month in Ottawa, we concluded a
  • historic free trade agreement with Indonesia, Canada's first bilateral free trade agreement with an AAN nation. This
  • week in Koala Lampur, we agreed to accelerate progress on a new Canada ASEAN free trade agreement targeting
  • completion of that agreement next year. Yesterday, I met with the prime ministers of Laos and Vietnam as well as
  • the president of the Philippines to move those talks forward. Now, that deal would add about$ one and
  • a half billion dollars to our economy, giving Canadian workers and businesses greater access to this fast growing

  • 4:03
  • market. In fact, probably arguably the fastest growing market in the world, and
  • would create jobs for Canadian workers in sectors ranging from critical minerals to clean tech, agro, food,
  • aerospace, and advanced manufacturing. All while lowering prices for Canadian consumers on goods like electronics and
  • clothing. In addition, President Marcos of the Philippine and I agreed yesterday to
  • launch talks on a new free trade agreement between our two nations again with a goal of concluding that agreement
  • next year. This week, we also made significant progress on energy. Today, Canada and
  • Malaysia signed a letter of intent to deepen investment in liqufied natural gas and oil, nuclear power, and
  • renewables. I met with the CEO and the senior management of Petronis, one of
  • the world's largest energy companies and already a major investor in LG in Canada, LG Canada phase 1, a LG facility

  • 5:04
  • in Kitamat, British Columbia. Now, phase two of this project will double
  • production, making the project as a whole the second largest LNG facility in
  • the world, creating tens of thousands of new high-paying Canadian careers.
  • That project, phase two, has been referred to our new major projects office because we want it built and we
  • want it built faster to the benefit of Canadians, including indigenous partners in the project.
  • Together with Petronis, we are exploring other new opportunities to expand our partnership and strengthen Canada's role
  • as a reliable energy supplier. By the end of this decade, 2030, Canada
  • produce nearly 50 million tons of LG each year, enough to supply Singapore,
  • where I'm going tomorrow, five times over. We can double that production again by 2040.

  • 6:04
  • demand captource
  • service economy resilient avoility.
  • the connectivity. Canada's also unlocking new opportunities in technology. Canada's
  • Blackberry offers its cyber security center of excellence here in Malaysia. And we announced an investment to expand
  • that center into an international hub for cyber intelligence and security

  • 7:02
  • innovation. Something I discussed this afternoon with Prime Minister Ibrahim.
  • Today I visited CAE with whom Malaysia Airlines has just signed a deal to purchase another Canadianbuilt flight
  • simulator. and I met the CEO of Air Asia yesterday about a potentially large
  • order for A220 planes designed and built in Quebec.
  • These are the kinds of partnerships we will keep building because Canada has what the world wants. Worldclass talent
  • with expertise in clean technology, artificial intelligence, life sciences, and quantum computing. We're the world's
  • number one number one destination for master's degrees and doctorates. We have
  • the most educated workforce in the world. We're an energy superpower with the third largest reserves of oil and
  • the fourth largest reserves of natural gas. We have an 85% clean grid which we
  • can readily increase by another 50% to power clean manufacturing,

  • 8:05
  • clean AI infrastructure in the electrification of our sustainable economy.
  • We have deposits of over 34 critical minerals and we're amongst the top five producers for the 10 critical minerals
  • most essential for the world's energy transition.
  • Over the next 5 years, we will be quadrupling quadrupling our defense industrial spending, strengthening our
  • role in collective security and creating new careers in our defense and associated industries. Next week,
  • Canada's defense minister will be in the Philippines to deepen our cooperation with Southeast Asia, expanding access
  • for the Canadian Armed Forces for training and joint operations in the Philippines, strengthening our shared
  • commitment to regional stability. The combination of these economic
  • strengths and the budget strategy I referenced earlier, our budget strategy to spend less so that Canadians can

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  • invest more will give investors confidence to build more in Canada. It
  • will give in innovators the stability they need to take risks in Canada and it
  • will reinforce the reasons the world has to trust Canadians as reliable partners.
  • Canada.
  • Selling our products to the world is a team Canada effort. Federal ministers are working hard securing deals and
  • building relationships across Asia. Premers from British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan to Newfoundland and
  • Labrador and Prince Edward Island are leading trade missions across the region.
  • Singapore

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  • commerce technology
  • know to finish to quote our host Prime Minister Ibrahim the old world order is
  • disappearing and a new one has yet to emerge. Times like this it's time to be
  • bold because how we respond will shape Canada's path for decades to come. By
  • making generational investments at home and by building deeper partnerships abroad, we will build Canada strong. And
  • with that, I'd be happy to take your questions. Thank you, Prime Minister. We're now going to begin with questions from the Canadian delegation. First question,
  • Sarah. Hi, Prime Minister. Sarah Richie with the Canadian Press, have you had any contact with President Trump since

  • 11:03
  • Thursday? Uh, I have not. Given that President Trump said today on
  • Air Force One, I don't know if you've heard this, but in the last hour, he said he doesn't plan to meet with you for a long time, is it worth continuing
  • to pursue a discussion, a meeting, a phone call with him at this point? Uh I didn't see the comment. Um look, we
  • stand ready um to sit down with the United States, myself, with the
  • president, uh my colleagues with their colleagues uh when the US is ready to sit down. Um we had made considerable
  • progress uh on a supplement to the trading relationship that we had uh
  • considerable progress in the areas of steel, aluminum and energy. associated areas as well. Um, and as as I just
  • said, we're we're ready to sit down when uh they are ready to do that. Uh, if they're not ready to do that, as those
  • comments indicate, then we and we were always going to do these

  • 12:04
  • things to be clear. We're going to first and foremost build our economy, build it with generational investments, and you
  • will see that not just the scale of ambition, but the speed with which we put that into effect uh in the budget on
  • November 4th. and continue to do what we've been doing over the course of the last few days and uh over the course of
  • recent months, which is to build those other partnerships and deepen those other partnerships on which we're
  • getting very much traction. Thank you. Next question. Murray.
  • Hi, Prime Minister. Murray Brewster with CBC News. President Trump says he's canled these
  • trade talks because he's upset about the Ontario government ad. We've heard from the Business Council of Canada and even
  • some of President Trump's own advisers who suggest the frustration with Canada runs deeper. So, is this about the ads
  • or is this about something else? Well, uh, look, um, as I say, um, and

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  • there's there were a series of very detailed, very specific, very
  • comprehensive discussions, negotiations on the areas I just listed to in response to the
  • previous question up until the point uh, of uh, those ads uh, running. First
  • point. Second point, uh, I would suggest you take the president at his word. uh
  • for his reason. Um so and that is the reason why from the perspective of the
  • federal government which I'm responsible um we stand ready to pick up on those
  • discussions when the United States wishes to pick up on those discussions.
  • So those in the room, those exchanging term sheets, those having the
  • discussions about specific areas where we can make mutual progress to the benefit of workers and businesses and
  • communities in our respective countries uh had been making progress.

  • 14:02
  • Those ads came uh the president had the reactions which you have seen, made the decisions that he has made which you
  • know those are his decisions to take. Um, and we're in the situation we're in.
  • Follow up. As a followup, uh, Prime Minister, given everything that we've seen, do you really think the United States is
  • interested in making a trade deal with Canada? Uh, look, we are their second largest
  • trading partner. Uh, we provide a series of
  • uh essential goods for their economy. We are one of many providers, but we provide in some
  • areas essential goods uh for their economy. Um and we create more room for them to do
  • other things. I'll give you an example. Uh if you look at Canadian exports of
  • aluminum uh to the United States, uh and aluminum is boxite and energy. I mean
  • there's a little more to it, but can simplify it to that. Um the embedded energy in the Canadian aluminum exports

  • 15:07
  • which provides 60% of the aluminum to the US market is the equivalent of the uh energy of 10 Hoover dams in the
  • United States now is the best use of that scale of energy. creating that
  • scale of energy to make aluminum in the United States um as opposed to continue
  • to foster and power the AI revolution which the US is leading um or power
  • homes and others that I mean these are decisions for the United States to make. Point being uh as a supplier to the
  • United States and I gave aluminum as one. I could give many examples. We are an important supplier in many areas as
  • well. We are a large customer um you know for over 30 states. Canada is the largest uh customer export customer for
  • those states in the United States. Um so there is a very strong deep uh trading
  • relationship uh and there is an alignment of interests in many areas uh for and that's the reason why we have

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  • elements of uh of the arrangements that we have today with a large degree of uh
  • uh of low tariff trade and and the benefits from that. Um, so
  • you know, we're ready to uh to have those discussions to further improve them and we'll have them when it's
  • appropriate, but we're not resting because we can
  • build we, you know, the return on building at home is far greater than the
  • hit from trade turbulence with the United States and the opportunities uh
  • internationally are considerable. And candidly, Canada has not focused uh on
  • the relationships to the same same extent as we should have in any trading environment with the United States. Uh
  • let alone a situation where they're changing their trade policy. Um and that's what we're doing now.

  • 17:02
  • Next question. Question. Judy Trin with CTV News.
  • Donald Trump says he doesn't want to see you at all at APEC.
  • Has the Canadian government given any consideration to the possibility that he
  • doesn't want to negotiate? And do you have a contingency plan for that?
  • We have lots of Yes. The short answer is yes. Uh to your followup, no, I'm not about to detail that those contingency
  • plans. Um uh but I will go to the big obvious plan that is there in plain
  • sight and will be further detailed in the budget on November 4th. And we have been saying this for months. I said this
  • before I was elected. Uh emphasize the importance of us giving ourselves far more than any foreign government could
  • take away whatever the trading environment. Um and that's to build at home and to build strong at home. Uh and

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  • we intend to unleash hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars of investment right here at home. Not right
  • here, but metaphorically there at home in Canada while we're building these partners uh partnerships. Um
  • Less than a month ago, you were at the White House. Uh you seemed very cordial, friendly with President Trump. Uh you
  • were the two of you were joking. You said you were going to walk away with a good deal. He said that that we would be
  • very happy. Is the US toying with Canada and how did your relationship with
  • Donald Trump go south so fast? That's a question for him.
  • Next question. Yes. Yes.
  • to the

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  • description.
  • Constructor
  • on. Okay.
  • on

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  • responsibility.
  • Okay.
  • Okay,
  • next question. Question.
  • Sorry. What's next? Who's Brian? What? Brian's next question. Why don't we have Brian's question and we'll follow up when you I'll ask a version of this so you can

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  • answer. I figured you might. Um, if if if this if it is true that a
  • TV ad that you were close to a deal, exchanging term sheets and a TV ad
  • uh caused all of this to be cancelled, halted, Trump does not want to meet. Uh, you know, are are you upset at at
  • Premier Doug Ford for running this ad? If if this is true that this ad spoiled something that was very close,
  • look, I uh I'd say the following, which is that um in any
  • complicated uh highstakes negotiation, um uh you can get unexpected twists and
  • turns. Um and you have to uh keep your cool uh during those situations. It
  • doesn't pay to be upset. emotions don't uh don't carry you very far. Uh and we
  • had made progress to repeat. Um and uh we stand by the progress that had

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  • been made. The government of Canada does and uh we are ready when appropriate to
  • pick that up. Um so uh and I'll just re-emphasize that it is the
  • responsibility of the government of Canada to have these negotiations. Uh and others will have opinions and others
  • uh welcome uh free advice um unsolicited advice as is entirely appropriate is
  • every Canadian is a stakeholder uh in these negotiations. every Canadian is a stakeholder in in the fact that we're
  • making progress in Azan, that we have the agreement with Indonesia, that we uh have just uh decided to accelerate trade
  • talks with Philippines, with Azan as a whole. Every Canadian has a stakeholder
  • uh is a stakeholder in the evolution of our relationship with China uh and the
  • discussions that we will be having at APEC uh with giants there. Um so
  • that's the focus. Um

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  • followup and uh just to cast things ahead to where you're um going later this week in
  • Korea, can you give us an update on do you expect to meet Chinese uh the Chinese president at at APEC? Uh and
  • what kind of conversations do you expect to have uh with uh the Chinese delegation there? Uh I do expect to uh
  • there are plans to uh for me and President Xi uh to meet um uh we will
  • pick up on the discussions I had uh with Premier Lee uh in New York a few weeks
  • ago uh a broad range of issues um both in terms of commercial uh the commercial
  • relationship uh as well as uh the evolution of the global system. Um, so I
  • look forward to the meeting with the president.

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  • Commercial system global.
  • Next question. Rafi. Hi, Prime Minister Rafim Jukan, CBC. Um, President Trump
  • threatened to impose this additional 10% tariff regardless of Ontario saying it would take the ad down. Does that
  • suggest there is nothing to be gained from backing down to the US president?
  • Uh, well, look, uh, with respect to, uh, the additional tariff, we haven't seen the the specifics about that. Um,
  • and look, I I I I don't want to make a a general uh generalization of the

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  • situation. Um, I'll repeat and I'll reemphasize. We've made significant
  • progress. We stand by the progress uh that we had made. Uh we think there is
  • uh uh a very good uh addition to the uh trading relationship, an additional deal
  • if you will uh that is in the interests of certainly Canadian workers, Canadian families, but very much American workers
  • and American families as well. It's a win-win. Um and um you know when the
  • time comes to pick that up, we would suggest picking it up from there. followup. This progress you have made, you you've
  • spoken a lot about sectors, sectoral tariffs. During your campaign, you were speaking a lot about reaching a
  • comprehensive security and energy deal. Did you at one point give up on that? If so, why? Uh well I we talked about I
  • maybe you weren't there but uh in July um when we made the decision that we evolved our our tariffs with respect to
  • the United States uh because we had reached a point by uh the middle of the summer where um under the executive

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  • order that pertained at then and still pertains um that the substantial
  • proportion of our trade with the United States is tariff-free. uh the US was less interested in the security element
  • of the partnership which is their decision look and to let's actually so
  • less interested in that and as well um was focused in for most countries on
  • these so-called 232 sectors which are by definition sectoral uh and they're the
  • major issue for our economy steel aluminum autos force products and and
  • therefore naturally it comes uh comes to that and that's where we've concentrated our efforts. Let me take a step back and
  • just a point of context here which is you know the United States has a trade
  • policy. It has a new approach to trade uh that has come in place with the new
  • administration. Uh we understand that we respect that they apply that policy to every country in the world. uh you see

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  • elements of it uh in the agreements uh that were announced uh here in Koala
  • Lumpur in uh in the last 24 hours and so uh that's that's the approach that uh
  • one deals with in uh with respect to having negotiations with the Americans. So it just it just follows our approach
  • in terms of negotiations with Indonesia. Our approach uh with respect uh to the
  • EU uh for example is much more comprehensive. Uh it includes security,
  • it includes defense uh includes broader elements. Um and it's um
  • uh there's a symmetry, they're symmetric those those arrangements. Uh, and that's
  • how we tend to do trade, but the US does it differently. It's not how we tend to do trade. That is how we do trade. And
  • the exception is the way the US is doing trade. Next question. Ian. Ian Austin from the New York Times. Um,

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  • when you made several concessions to the United States, dropping the retaliatory tariffs, the the digital tax, and so on,
  • you you were challenged and you said there's a time to push back and there's a time to talk. Well, the talks ended.
  • Well, they just ended. Yeah. So, uh, I mean, are we back into retaliation? Does this open the door to
  • things like removing the EV tariff? Uh, look, I wouldn't speculate on that.
  • I' I'd say uh the follow you can speculate. I'm not going to speculate on that. I' I'd say the following. Um, the
  • the approach that uh the previous government put in place in terms of retaliation and that we kept on for a
  • period of time. Um the reality is that uh Canada was one of only two countries
  • that had retaliatory tariffs on. Um so everybody had a focus but only two
  • countries had those in place. Uh and the value of those retaliations was
  • diminishing. Remember that tariffs we put retaliatory tariffs on. There is a

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  • cost at home for those tariffs. They were designed to minimize those costs but there's still a cost at home and those costs build up over time. Uh so we
  • took the decision, we stand by it in terms of uh in terms of taking those down, taking those off and then we made
  • the progress that we did. Um we will uh it goes to the earlier
  • question. I think it was Judy's question about contingency plans and uh right um
  • and we have a series of measures that we have put in place for the strategic
  • sector so-called strategic sectors for steel for aluminum both in terms of liquidity support in terms of um uh more
  • strategic support so that you know billions of dollars of strategic support so they can pivot to new markets new
  • products um by Canadian policies that are just now getting fully articulated
  • and ramping up um so that uh so that we can support there and there will be more coming in the budget as part of a

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  • broader industrial and trade diversification strategy climate competitiveness strategies which will help for all of this. So uh
  • that's that's the focus of the of the reaction. I mean obviously we will we
  • will protect uh markets if we if we see big asymmetries in terms of access uh
  • but that's not a decision for today. Followup and um
  • you know the the end of these talks which you you've described as being serious and constructive for what seems
  • like a capricious reason. Does this underscore that is there any value in
  • trying to negotiate something with the Trump administration? Is it word worth anything? Uh look, I think that um yes,
  • I mean the short answer is yes, there is there is there is value. There's tremendous value in those negotiations. Um we've seen that the US administration
  • has made a series of um commitments and agreements that is is stood by. Some of
  • those have been in the peace and security uh area. Some of them have been on the trade side. Um

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  • but just to be absolutely clear, we represent Canada. uh we are going to
  • fight for Canadians. We are only going to agree to a deal uh through a
  • negotiation that is in the best interests of Canadians. Um they are
  • working in the best interests um of Americans. There are places where those interests are aligned and they overlap
  • and we can have a deal, but we're not going to accept something that uh um is not in the is not in the best interest
  • of Canadians and they understand that. Next question. McKenzie. Okay, Mackenzie, you can ask your onlay.
  • Mackenzie Gray with Global News. I'd like to follow up on Sarah's earlier question. I know you said you haven't spoken to the president, but you've been
  • known to text with him. Have you reached out to him personally at all since uh the president? Look, the president
  • knows that I'm available uh to speak to the president. Um as as I would always would be, as you would expect. Uh I make

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  • I mean as president of the United States, so of course make myself available. and make myself available for
  • other world leaders uh as as they wish to. Uh we will both be in APEC. Canada is a member of APEC. I mean we're we're
  • be there uh very much so. Follow up. So you haven't reached out to the president at all and and
  • I look I the president and I have not spoken since he took this decision. That's and you want to chat with him at APEC?
  • I I I we are ready to have discussions
  • when the Americans wish to have those discussions. Uh but we're not obviously
  • we don't dictate the timing of that. And last question Steve Chase
  • Steve Chase Mail wanted to ask you about where the relationship with China could go
  • and uh your predecessor put uh fenced off significant portions of the Canadian

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  • economy from Chinese investment uh critical minerals anything related to national security academic collaboration
  • the list goes on and on. So my question for you is are you willing to revisit or consider lowering some of those
  • restrictions so that more Chinese investment could flow into Canada? Well, it's uh it's the start of a
  • broader discussion. There were there were greater restrictions that were in place given uh other issues in the
  • relationship. first point. Secondly, uh there needs uh to be a a resetting of
  • expectations or we're in the process of a resetting of expectations of where the relationship can go. Uh the extent to
  • which we have different systems um where the relationship can go and where it won't go. Um and that's part of the
  • discussion um that has begun. Um I think what is absolutely clear is that uh a
  • relationship for example where um uh there are extreme restrictions on travel

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  • uh between our two countries uh is an unusual rel uh place for the can Canadian China relationship to be uh
  • given the history of the relationship given the the the long history of uh travel between our two countries that is
  • one example it's a very obvious example that uh progress can be made uh there are issues of as as as people well know
  • in in agriculture uh uh in in for for fishery uh goods um there's issues in
  • manufacturing and others and we will explore what what we can build on um you
  • know relationships rebuild over time when um when they have been uh
  • when when they have changed when they've changed for the worse and um and uh so we have a lot of areas where on which we
  • can build and look last point which is that this is our second largest trading
  • partner. This is the second largest economy in the world. Uh this is um one
  • of uh the most influential um actors in terms of the global system

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  • such as it is uh and it is um a country with whom we had no senior level contact
  • for seven years until I met Premier Lee uh in New York. Uh so we're starting
  • from a base and we can we can move quite substantially. We're starting from a very low base and we can move quite substantially uh before we start to get
  • to uh sensitive areas. Would you like to or is a free trade
  • agreement with China out of the question? And if you could, would you drop EV tariffs against
  • I, you know, I look forward to the discussions with uh President Xi. Um and
  • they're they're about much broader issues, set of issues than trade. Um and um we'll be in better position to start
  • answering questions like that as the relationship evolves and and and deepens. So uh we don't go in there's no
  • preset offer issue. This is not this is the difference between relationship and
  • transaction. We're starting relationship building up the relationship on that. Thank you. This press conference.
  • Thank you.


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