Because Barack Obama’s days in office are numbered, Canada isn’t pursing any major initiatives beyond climate change for reinvigorating the complicated three−way relationship at the summit.
On Saturday, a stage of a Russian satellite-launching rocket is expected to fall into Baffin Bay between Ellesmere Island and Greenland within seas over which Canada has economic control.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said it was "irresponsible" of a journalist from the web outlet IPolitics to ask about human rights and the jailing of a Canadian, Kevin Garratt.