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China’s stringent response to the Covid-19 pandemic led to a view that Beijing would become more inward-looking. But this analysis misses a salient point that China has been making consistently – China wants to play a disruptive role in international politics and transform the world order based on an old idea of State sovereignty. China wants to condition the current world order to its volition with no questions asked about its core sovereignty interests – including Taiwan and territorial integrity. Pushing China into the league of ‘major countries’ would be one of the critical goals of President Xi Jinping in...
