China's return to global stage checked by national security focus
China's increasing focus on its own security and intensifying rivalry with the United States threatens to turn its re-engagement with the world after years of Covid curbs into a new era of isolation from the West, analysts say.
Since casting off pandemic controls that effectively shut its borders since 2020, Beijing has in recent months embarked on a series of seemingly contradictory diplomatic and business steps that have left many observers questioning its motives.
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