"Stephen Hawking and I wrote an essay about future colliders that is relevant to both the CEPC and the FCC. We were encouraged by others to chime in because of discussions that arose in China about physics and economic and cultural issues surrounding building a future collider. The theoretical arguments for building a larger collider with several times the energy of the LHC are thus very strong, particularly in regard to solving the hierarchy problem. What would happen without data? Someone may get or even already have the solution, but no one will be convinced. With data pointing to the solution, we may be able to move on and obtain consensus about a comprehensive theory that incorporates the standard models of particle physics and cosmology and a quantum theory of general relativity, giving us a profound understanding of our universe."