We should give full play to the central role of the United Nations and its Security Council in ending conflict and keeping peace, and adopt the dual approach of seeking peaceful solutions to disputes and taking mandatory actions, so as to turn hostility into amity.
习近平同志在第七十届联合国大会一般性辩论时的讲话
Speech at the General Debate of the 70th Session of the UN General Assembly
We should give full play to the central role of the United Nations and its Security Council in ending conflict and keeping peace, and adopt the dual approach of seeking peaceful solutions to disputes and taking mandatory actions, so as to turn hostility into amity.
习近平同志在第七十届联合国大会一般性辩论时的讲话
Speech at the General Debate of the 70th Session of the UN General Assembly
The term means to eliminate animosity in order to turn war into peace and turn conflicts into amity. Gan (干) and ge (戈) are two weapons of war which were used for defense and attack respectively in ancient China. Yu (玉) and bo (帛) mean jades (such as jade tablets and jade ornaments) which were gifts exchanged between feudal lords and tribute paid to monarchs. In time, yu and bo acquired the meaning of peace and co-existence. This term reflects the Chinese people’s long-standing aspiration for peace and goodwill to dissolve conflict and violence.
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上天降灾,使我两君匪以玉帛相见,而以兴戎。
(《左传·僖公十五年》)
(上天降下灾祸,使我[秦、晋] 两国国君没有带着玉帛会面, 却发动了战争。)
Heaven has struck disaster, bringing our two sovereign lords (of the states of Qin and Jin) to face each other, not with jades and silks, but with the instruments of war.
(Zuo’ s Commentary on The Spring and Autumn Annals)