When discussing peace, Liu Jianchao, head of the International Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, believes it is an eternal topic of human society and a common aspiration shared by people around the world. “But ever since the forming of human society, war has been used as a means to extract and protect interests, bringing disasters to the world,” he said.
Unfortunately, over 14,500 wars have been waged over the past 5,000-plus years of recorded human history, claiming as many as 3.6 billion lives, the veteran diplomat said, adding, “If our 5,000-year history were condensed into 24 hours, war would have consumed about
