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These meetings, often cloaked in diplomatic decorum, suggest a different agenda. They hint at efforts to foster deeper economic ties—and perhaps influence—between Western financial institutions and China’s ruling elite. Notably, Carney’s involvement with Brookfield Asset Management, which secured sizeable loans from Chinese sources, underscores an undeniable link: access to China’s economy often necessitates cozying up to Xi Jinping’s regime.
This raises unsettling questions: Why was Carney in China? Was his trip purely for financial interests, or were clandestine negotiations at play? And, more troubling still, why did he step down from Brookfield and pivot to politics, claiming to oppose China’s influence just months later?