BEIJING, April 26,
2024 /PRNewswire/
--
"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
"Us children in Palestine do not grow up."
This snippet comes from a conversation between a reporter and a
child in the war-torn Palestinian enclave that is the Gaza Strip in 2023.
Even today, the agonies of war are very much alive, haunting
countless innocents in their nightmares.
"To serve not war and annihilation, but peace and
reconciliation." This is part of a quote by German-Swiss poet and
Nobel Laureate Hermann Hesse (1877-1962).
On January 18, 2017, Chinese
President Xi Jinping stated this in a keynote speech at the
United Nations Office in Geneva,
in which he called on the international community to build a world
of lasting peace and common security.
Currently, regional security flashpoints flare up one after the
other. Bloody conflicts erupt frequently. Unilateralism and
protectionism are on the rise. Traditional and non-traditional
security threats are deeply intertwined. According to a report by
the Institute for Economics and Peace, an Australian think tank, in
2022, global armed conflict casualties had reached the highest
level in nearly 30 years.
What is wrong with our world? And what can or must we do? In
response to these pressing questions, on April 21, 2022, at the opening ceremony of the
Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference, President Xi first proposed
the Global Security Initiative (GSI).
The GSI outlines how countries can achieve common,
comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security. It offers
Chinese expertise and solutions to address global security
challenges.
Over the past two years, the GSI has already begun to show
tangible results. In March 2023,
Saudi Arabia and Iran agreed to resume diplomatic relations in
a deal brokered by China. The
agreement ended almost seven years of hostilities between the two
longtime regional rivals. This historic rapprochement has also
encouraged the Middle Eastern countries to address and resolve many
regional conflicts.
In response to the Ukraine
crisis, China in February 2023 issued a 12-point document,
stressing China's objective and
impartial stance on the issue and highlighting its commitment to
facilitating dialogue and negotiation for resolving the crisis.
On the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, China has called for the implementation of the
two-state solution and a larger, more authoritative and more
influential peace conference. The two-state solution calls for the
creation of a Palestinian state living in peace with Israel with East
Jerusalem being its capital.
The country contributes more troops to United Nations
peacekeeping missions than any other permanent member of the UN
Security Council.
All these efforts demonstrate China's commitment to safeguarding global
peace.
However, we still have a long way to go before humanity achieves
lasting peace, and all countries should join hands in the pursuit
of this common goal.
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