On August 25, 2022, the "Global Thinkers Special", co-organized by CGTN and iGCU, was successfully held in Beijing. Leading scholars and former dignitaries from the U.S., U.K., Norway, Singapore, Thailand, Kyrgyzstan, and Egypt were invited to the event. During the event, scholars and experts shared their distinctive viewpoints on the current geopolitical landscape as well as the prospect of developing countries in the next twenty years.

Prof. Martin Jacques (Former Senior Fellow at the Departmentof Politics and International Studies,Cambridge University) indicated in his speech that as China is so different from the West, China's rise has been, for a long time, underplayed, not really understood,and distorted in all sorts of ways in the West. Prof. Jacques reckoned that it would still be "verychallenging" for China and the U.S. to overcome the misunderstanding and suspicion, but the U.S. would eventually have to accept that China enjoys parity with the U.S.

Narrator: Chu Haoxiang

Producers: Liu Cong, Zeng Chuyao