India, Jan. 13 -- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will arrive in China this week on a high-stakes diplomatic mission aimed at reviving long-stalled ties with Beijing and reshaping Canada's global trade strategy as relations with the US grow increasingly strained.

He will arrive on Wednesday and is making the trip as part of a broader strategic rethink as ties with the US, Canada's largest trading partner by far, continue to sour.

Carney has set an ambitious goal of doubling Canada's non-American exports over the next decade, as US President Donald Trump presses ahead with tariffs and has even mused that Canada could become "the 51st state", according to a report by The Associated Press.

"At a time of global trade disruption, Canada...