Service for a Better World

By Zhang Shasha

‘What do you want to be when you grow up?” “We children in Palestine do not grow up.” This snippet comes from a conversation between a reporter and a child in the wartorn 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 used this quote in a keynote speech titled Work Together to Build a Community of Shared Future for Mankind at the United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland, in which he called on the international community to build a world of lasting peace and common…

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Beijing Review (Digital) - 1 Issue, Vol.67/No.18

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