Dear reader please support this important call on governments of the Pacific and Pacific Rim to adopt a neutral position on the escalating confrontation between the US and China. You can also register for the webinar for the launch of this campaign. Read below.

Petition to Pacific and Pacific Rim Governments including the Australian government

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Pacific and Pacific Rim countries are increasingly taking sides, or under pressure to take sides, in the growing confrontation between the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China and are being urged to spend an increasing proportion of their public income on militarisation, to the detriment of addressing urgent social needs. A war between the USA and its allies against the People’s Republic of China and its allies would be disastrous for the people of the Pacific and Pacific Rim countries. Our survival depends upon preventing nuclear war and preserving our cultures and environments from irreversible destruction.

We, the Peoples of the Pacific and Pacific Rim countries, urgently call on each of our governments to adopt a neutral position, committing to reduce the likelihood and the scale of a U.S.-China war. Our governments should reaffirm existing maritime neutrality laws, implement country-specific neutrality policies, and refuse to participate in military escalation on any side.

The Call on Governments:
For Sustainable Peace and the Survival of our Peoples and Environment, we ask you:

• Refuse to join military preparations for a US-China war; 
• Declare you will not fight in a US-China war;
• Declare neutrality should such a war break out;
• Do not allow your sovereign territories or waters to be used in such a war, including the collection and relay of military intelligence, sales of weapons, and hosting combatant troops and facilities.

This petition produced by the Pacific Peace Network, supported by IPAN and hosted by World Beyond War can be 
SIGNED HERE
Please distribute widely
Register for the Launch Webinar, 21st June, 11am AEST, for this peace and solidarity campaign  HERE