Sydney Consensus: Anti-authoritarianism, anti-aggression, and peace
On September 24-25, 2022, the seminar “The Situation in the Taiwan Strait and Cross-Strait Relations after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and Cross-Strait Relations” was held in Sydney, Australia, hosted by the China Democratic Solidarity Alliance and co-organized by the Qi Cultural Foundation, the Victims of the Chinese Communist Regime (Australia and New Zealand) Alliance, “Beijing Spring” and other groups. More than 50 representatives of Han, Tibetan and Uighur scholars, human rights activists, international friends and democracy activists from Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and other countries and regions attended the meeting.
The meeting conducted in-depth analysis and discussion around the current situation in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan Strait and international affairs.
Today’s China, under the authoritarian regime of the Chinese Communist Party, especially the totalitarian rule of Jinping Xi, has sharply regressed to the totalitarian society of the era of Zedong Mao and Hitler.
The CCP has carried out racial and cultural genocide against non-Han ethnic groups represented by the re-education concentration camps in Xinjiang and Sinicization of Tibet; it has used the Hong Kong version of the national security law to completely subvert the original rule of law and free society; it has annihilated religious groups by suppressing Falun Gong, persecuting house churches, and stationing party branches in temples; it has imprisoned human rights lawyers; it has suppressed speech and belief The information flow is comprehensively monitored and suppressed with “no blind corners”; dissidents are abused to create unjust imprisonment by “picking quarrels and provoking troubles”; overseas, cross-border kidnapping is a typical example of exporting state terrorism; and the international democratic society is penetrated and subverted by means of technology theft, bribery, interference in elections, bullying and intimidation, and the cultivation of agents. As for the “Wuhan Pneumonia” (Chinese Communist Party Virus), they first covered up the epidemic by blocking information, causing the virus to spread and harm the world; and then forcibly implemented “dynamic clearing” to create endless secondary disasters.
Especially now, Jinping Xi and Putin have formed a new axis of evil and become the source of launching a new world war. Putin not only launched a war of aggression against Ukraine with the “coordination” of the CCP, aiming to restore the “glory” of Tsarist Russia’s territorial expansion, but also continued to issue threats and blackmails to escalate the war and even use nuclear weapons when the war of aggression suffered setbacks; and is trying to use China to Jinping Xi, who was re-elected indefinitely at the 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, used “encirclement drills” around the island to fire missiles and cross-border military aircraft to frantically disrupt Taiwan, threatening the democratic and free Taiwan with force and war in an attempt to establish his historical position as a great dictator comparable to Zedong Mao.
In view of this, this meeting reached the following consensus:
1. The Chinese Communist regime is the biggest threat to world peace today and is also the backend of other authoritarian regimes. As long as the CCP’s tyranny is not eradicated, world peace will not be guaranteed.
2. Local autonomy and residents’ self-determination under the principle of sovereignty in the people are the cornerstone of modern democracy and international norms, and are also the core values established by the United Nations Charter and two international human rights conventions.
3. Taiwan is a successful example of a constitutional democratic system. The Chinese Communist Party’s armed attack on Taiwan is a challenge to all democracies from the authoritarian regime. Liberal democracies must defend Taiwan as firmly as they defended West Berlin. Changes to the status quo across the Taiwan Strait must be decided through a vote by all citizens of Taiwan who are not threatened by force.
4. The international democratic community must unite to help the Taiwanese people defend the constitutional order and way of life of freedom, independence, peace, democracy, and the rule of law;
5. All people who are ruled or threatened by the CCP should respect, understand, and cooperate with each other, work together to overthrow the CCP’s rule, and build a regional pattern of peace, coexistence, and mutual benefit through consultation.
6. The most important principle enshrined in the United Nations Charter in peacetime. How to maintain peace across the Taiwan Strait is the focus of global attention. War will inevitably cause the lives of people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to be devastated. No matter what, we must oppose the Chinese Communist regime’s attempt to reunify by force and prevent the occurrence of war.
September 25, 2022
China Democratic Solidarity Alliance
Victims of the Chinese Regime (Australia and New Zealand) Alliance
Qi Cultural Foundation
Beijing Spring