HONG KONG -- For three years, COVID kept China's global diplomacy goals on ice. Now, with the U.S. enmeshed in a domestic election campaign and the international community preoccupied with war in Ukraine, Beijing is back, ramping up a drive to promote its own alternative to the West's "rules-based international order."
China has emerged from COVID-enforced isolation with grand plans to boost its influence among countries around the world. © Illustration by Hiroko Oshima
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