New Delhi, Jan. 13 -- A leader of Canada is visiting China this week for the first time in nearly a decade, a bid to rebuild the country's fractured relations with the world's second-largest economy - and reduce Canada's dependence on the United States.

The push by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who arrives Wednesday, is part of a major rethink as ties sour with the U.S. - the world's No. 1 economy and long the largest trading partner for Canada by far.

Carney aims to double Canada's non-American exports in the next decade in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs and the American leader's musing that Canada could become "the 51st state."

"At a time of global trade disruption, Canada is focused on building a more compe...