A Billionaire's Bet: The Best and Brightest, a new CNBC documentary, follows a group of young super achievers from around the world as they embark on the one-year Schwarzman Scholars program at Tsinghua University in China. The ambitious program, founded by billionaire and Blackstone CEO Stephen A. Schwarzman, aims to gather, educate and influence the next generation of global leaders. It's been hailed as a way to ease tensions between the U.S. and China, and even potentially stave off future cold wars.

Documentary film, 58' | 2017

A film Kathy Liu and James Segelstein

Produced by CNBC US