China-foreign relations are facing new situations. As China lifted pandemic control restrictions, especially in entry management, physical interactions between China and other countries are likely to present a faster recovery. The new leadership of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed goodwill in a variety of ways. However, complex factors, such as the Covid-19 pandemic and great changes in the international geopolitical pattern, have challenged China’s efforts to strengthen and improve its relations with the outside world. Currently, a proper approach is to boost institutional opening-up, especially by enhancing the national awareness of rules and the spirit of the contract, and continue to optimize the business environment, in order to stabilize and raise major trading partners’ confidence and expectations in China, fundamentally.
The three-year pandemic has changed the world and seriously affected people-to-people exchanges between countries and regions. Recently, some countries announced entry restrictions on travelers from China. These are provisional measures, however, signaling more intricate international relations than existed three years ago. It is gratifying that China’s decision-makers have continuously demonstrated their determination to promote high-level opening-up and boost institutional opening-up. It is a rare choice in the face of the ongoing pandemic and external environment turbulence.
