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Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivers a speech via video link to the opening ceremony of the Bo'ao Forum For Asia in southern China's Hainan Province on April 21, 2022. Huang Jingwen/Xinhua via AP
The tone of Chinese diplomacy and its international relations have markedly changed since 2019. Several factors are driving these changes in China’s relations with the world. They include shifts in the global political and economic climate as well as other factors that are internal in nature.
