Sever The Sister City Relationship with China
AUSTRALIA CANADA GERMANY JAPAN NEW ZEALAND UNITED KINGDOM UNITED STATES
Read our global-joint statement:
“Sever the sister city relationship with China” – Global Joint Campaign
The establishment of the “sister city” agreement was supposed to be a diplomatic strategy to foster economic engagement and cultural exchange between two nations. However, this diplomatic strategy is becoming a manipulative tool for the Chinese Communist Party regime to expand the influence of its dictatorship around the world. The legitimacy of "sister city" has long been questioned.
The Chinese government's erosion of Hong Kong’s autonomy, violent trampling of press freedom, and repression of democratic voices unveil its breach of the Sino-British Joint Declaration, causing thousands of Hongkongers to become political prisoners. China has been committing genocide in Xinjiang province by sending Uyghurs to mass arbitrary detention camps since 2014. Recently, leaked files exposed the inhumane situation in those camps like the ‘shoot to kill’ policy, torturing, sexual abuse, and more.
With China’s infamous records of human rights abuses and practices of not abiding with international treaties – displaying traits of totalitarianism, many still choose to turn a blind eye due to economic benefits from China.
Following the de-twinning of Swedish cities from China in 2020, Hong Kong activist groups around the globe hereby make a joint statement, prompting the local authorities to cut ties with this totalitarian regime that neglects the value of human rights, freedom and democracy by terminating the twin city relationship with China.
全球聯合抗爭行動 ——「斷絕中共姊妹城市關係」
「姊妹城市」協議原意旨在促進兩國之間的經濟合作和文化交流。然而，這種外交策略現在卻淪為中共政權操縱世界及擴大其極權統治影響力的工具。「姊妹城市」成為了外交滲透策略，使其認受性一直備受質疑。
中共極權政府不斷侵蝕香港的高度自治，粗暴地打壓民主和踐踏新聞自由，公然違反中英聯合聲明，導致數千名港人淪為政治犯。自2014年起，中共亦以「再教育」為由，在新疆大規模關押維吾爾族人及穆斯林。最近，外洩檔案更公開集中營的不人道行為，例如虐待、擊斃逃跑者等等。
中國臭名昭著的侵犯人權記錄和不遵守國際條約的做法，突顯出其極權主義的本質，但不少國家郤因為經濟利益而選擇視而不見。
因應2020 年多個瑞典城市與中國脫離「姊妹城市」關係，全球多個抗爭組織現聯合發表聲明促請各地市政府重新審視他們與獨裁政權的密切關係，以正視聽，反對與漠視人權、自由和民主的的中共建交，並透過終止與中國的「姊妹城市」關係來捍衛人權和遏止其滲透。
此全球聯合行動由7個國家共163個城市共同發起。