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. Oystein Tunsjo (Professor and Director of the Asia Program at the Norwegian Institute for DefenseStudies) first suggested that it is both understandable that China wants to reestablish its position as a dominant power in its region, and that the United States would seek to prevent China from doing so. Prof. Tunsjo believes that the discussion of whether China wants to be a superpower does not really matter, for both China and the U.S. are in fact the two most powerful states in the world today. Prof. Tunsjo further proposes that the new "Cold War" is very much unlikely, as the new superpower rivalry in the 21st century will be very different from the 20th century. One of the major reasons for that would be the geopolitics (economic interdependence, ideology, technological development, institutions) at the present day.

Narrator: Chu Haoxiang

Producers: Liu Cong, Zeng Chuyao