Cutting through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story.
This is the point.
You want to be rich?
But how?
And for what purpose?
That's the conversation I should have with my children.
I was told by Vijay Prashad, a world-renowned leftist scholar, writer and historian.
We were talking about the rising global south on the sidelines of a forum dedicated to the subject held in Shanghai.
Welcome to a special edition of The Point with me, Liu Xin,
and our pin-in show coming to you this time from the beautiful city of Shanghai.
During the wide-ranging conversation,
we touched upon what Vijay Prashat calls a new mood in developing countries,
reactions from the US-led West, China-India relations,
the Eurasian continent, young people in Latin America and so on and so forth.
And we started with his jacket.
Vijay, it's such a nice pleasure to have you again and to catch up with,
you know, what has happened in the world.
But this jacket that you're wearing, I have to start with this.
Tell me the story about it.
Well, I was very fortunate that Professor Lu Chenyu said, you know, you must come to...