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At the recent Two Sessions gathering in Beijing, Foreign Minister Qin Gang announced that China had "pressed the acceleration button" and "sounded the clarion call" for diplomacy.
And the world – and especially Europe - certainly seems to have answered that call. In recent weeks Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, French President Emmanuel Macron and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have all traveled to Beijing to meet President Xi Jinping.
To find out what China's re-opening post-pandemic really means for the rest of the world on this edition of The Agenda Juliet Mann speaks to Justin Vaïsse, Director General of the Paris Peace Forum, who was part of President Macron's delegation, three time Spanish Ambassador to China, Eugenio Bregolat and – ahead of his own trip to Beijing - Mohcine Jazouli, Morocco's Investment Minister.