China's high-quality development philosophy featuring innovative, coordinated, green, open and shared development would help Thailand to escape from the middle-income trap and achieve the shared goal of joint development, said Thai scholars.

There is a famous book, written by 16th-century Italian political theorist Nicolo Machiavelli, that I rarely recommend to my students. While the students may gain knowledge about the ways of the world and the art of political manipulation, my worry is they may learn immoral ideas, with consequences for themselves and society as a whole.