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China's return to global stage checked by national security focus

 Published: 12:35, 8 May 2023

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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