Sister city program

Do Not Show Again Close. More info Sign In. SCI Conference Report Hanamaki International Exchange Association. Photo Gallery. Sister City Links. Video Gallery. Online Payments. So we deny their basic humanity, which is the hallmark of failed nations everywhere. The sister-cities model can help. At a moment when the world seemed to teeter on the edge of nuclear holocaust, sister cities brought people from hostile countries into the same room. After the Geneva accord between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, for example, dozens of American and Soviet cities entered into agreements to promote cultural exchange, economic cooperation, and more.

When he was mayor of Burlington, Vt. Bernie Sanders led a delegation to establish a sister-city relationship with Yaroslavl, a city in the Soviet Union. Gorbachev at Geneva that we exchange many more of our citizens from fraternal, religious, educational and cultural groups? Surely these efforts helped people on both sides see the other as something more than an enemy.

Ditto for more recent sister-city efforts between American and Chinese municipalities. And when the virus came to San Antonio in March , Wuxi sent face masks and other protective gear.

None of that has prevented four GOP senators from demanding an investigation of American sister-city relationships with China, which they say is using the program to spread — you guessed it — propaganda. Imagine if cities in different parts of America did the same thing. However, please don't include any personal or financial information.

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