The Hub with Wang Guan

The spotlight shines on the Bo'ao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2023 in Bo'ao, Hainan. Can Asian wisdom offer new solutions to global problems? The theme this year is "An Uncertain World: Solidarity and Cooperation for Development amid Challenges", which aims to explore how nations and organizations can cooperate better. Chinese Premier Li Qiang's keynote address at the opening ceremony offered details of China's proposals. Can China's opening-up be the engine of world growth once again? And what are the prime challenges for common prosperity?

Ten years ago, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed the forging of a community with a shared future for mankind, where we all share a common destiny, and grow and prosper together. As this year marks its 10th anniversary, the concept of a shared future is being explored by more countries and scholars from the West. But can this concept prevail when competition, even rivalry, are rife in the world? With Chinese modernization making extraordinary headway and the debunking of the myth that modernization equals Westernization, what does it mean for the world?

The relationship between Saudi Arabia and Iran has been one of the most complex ones in the Middle East region. The two countries cut diplomatic ties in 2016. Under China's mediation, Iran and Saudi Arabia recently announced in Beijing that they have decided to resume their diplomatic ties.

As the new state leadership line-up is being announced, how prepared is China in facing its socio-economic challenges and geopolitical headwinds? How will the country's sweeping administrative revamp close remaining loopholes? And what will be the key growth drivers going forward? And how do foreign entrepreneurs look at the Two Sessions?

About 20 years ago, most mainstream scholars would tell you that capitalism, along with Western liberalism, was the triumphant form of government. But China has been sustaining stellar economic growth rate and social improvement without copying the Western political system wholesale. Now, the organizing principle of its stellar growth and development has been encapsulated in what Beijing calls "Whole-Process People's Democracy" and "Chinese Path to Modernization". What do they really mean?

Last September, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko met in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. It was during this meeting that the bilateral relationship between the two countries was elevated to an "all-weather comprehensive strategic partnership." Where is this bilateral relationship headed with President Lukashenko's state visit to China? Besides bilateral trade and investment cooperation, how will Belarus contribute to regional stability as a new member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization?