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|b A strategic shift is taking place in the Chinese foreign policy, which is intended to set Beijing’s policy in the next 30 years to make it the closest to lead the world in the 21st century. Therefore, China is attempting to enhance investments and boost economic ties with all the world countries, especially those with geo-strategic significance, in a bid to secure its increasing economic requirements of energy and cope with its own growing economy. It launched the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, which constitutes its geo-political aspiration to enhance its One Belt, One Road policy. It is aimed at reviving the old trade Silk Route, which connected China to Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Beijing managed to forge special corridors and roads to leverage its role at the regional and international levels, as it is no longer merely about threat level, at which most of the lockdown on movement, business and services were lifted. On 17 March, the Defence Law no. 13 of 1992 was enforced based on a royal decree. It was aimed at confronting, within the least necessary limits, the health, administrative and economic impacts of the pandemic. Then, it lead to the issue of 12 defence orders, which empowered the government to disrupt, amend and create a set of regulatory acts for preventive, economic and administrative procedures. The target was to strike a balance between social distancing, which confines the virus through strict measures in business and movement, on the one hand, and easing such measures to safeguard the basic rights of the middle and low classes in employment, education, health and nourishment, on the other.
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