Editorial: Take International Rules Seriously

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.