Carney quietly revives China military talks — Canadians find out from Chinese media

Mark Carney’s government has quietly revived military talks with China after an eight-year hiatus — despite previously branding Beijing Canada’s “biggest security threat.”

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Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has quietly revived a formal military dialogue with China’s People’s Liberation Army that had been dormant for more than eight years.

Carney previously called China Canada’s “biggest security threat.”

And Canadians learned about the renewed dialogue from China.

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Canadian and Chinese defence officials met in Ottawa on Sept. 4 for the fifth Canada-China Defence Coordination Dialogue.

The bilateral dialogue was established in 2013. Canada and China held four previous rounds — in 2013, 2014, 2016 and April 2018 — before the mechanism went dormant. The Sept. 4, 2026 meeting marked the first dialogue since then.

The eight-year gap refers specifically to the Defence Coordination Dialogue, not to an absence of all military or defence contact between Canada and China.