作者：张维清

2026年6月6日，一座名为《捍卫自由·乌克兰》的大型主题雕塑在南加州自由雕塑公园举行了隆重的落成典礼。那一刻，我有幸站在现场，见证了这一神圣而震撼的历史瞬间。该雕塑旨在向乌克兰总统泽连斯基及全体军民致敬，纪念他们四年多来以弱胜强、以少胜多，英勇顽强地抵抗俄罗斯侵略，坚守国家主权、领土完整以及自由民主制度的壮举。

站在雕塑前，我的思绪不禁回到了2022年2月。当俄罗斯全面入侵乌克兰时，文明世界无不义愤填膺，一致予以强烈谴责。然而，中共官方却背道而驰，高调宣称“中俄互信不封顶，战略合作不设禁区，世代友好没有止境”，在国际社会上公然表达对俄罗斯侵略行为的纵容与支持。中共为俄罗斯提供军用物资、购买俄罗斯石油、帮助俄罗斯规避制裁。对这令人窒息的黑白颠倒，我在微信上公开、坚决地表达反对，我呼吁和平，坚定地与乌克兰站在一起，声援因为在街头举牌支持乌克兰被中国警察抓捕的异见人士。因为我知道，俄罗斯的侵略以及中共对其的支持，不仅是对一个主权国家的残酷践踏，更是对人类普世价值的公然挑衅。尤其是当看到无数无辜的平民与儿童在无差别袭击中失去生命、流离失所，我作为一个尚存良知的人，无法对这种暴行保持沉默。

我反对中共支持俄罗斯入侵乌克兰更深层的原因在于，中共长期以来站在世界文明对立面的历史。自成立与执政以来，中共在国际外交中始终扮演着独裁政权最大“输血者”与“保护伞”的角色。

回顾历史，在亚洲，它曾全方位扶植柬埔寨红色高棉政权，直接导致该国多达两百万人死于非命；它长期为朝鲜世袭独裁输血，让半岛民众饱受奴役，核危机延续至今。在拉美与非洲，它用数十亿美元为经济崩溃、操纵选举的委内瑞拉马杜罗政权续命；它常年援助美洲唯一的共产独裁国古巴；甚至在曾犯下种族灭绝罪的苏丹独裁者、毁灭国家经济的津巴布韦威权统治背后，都充斥着中共免除债务、输送武器的黑影。更有甚者，它与伊朗建立全面战略伙伴关系以对抗国际制裁。

尤为讽刺且让我气愤的是，在2021年7月28日阿富汗塔利班尚未完全夺权、美军还没完全撤出阿富汗，中共时任外长王毅便在中国天津市高调接见了塔利班代表团，公开称赞塔利班政权。这种主动勾结、扶植世界公认恐怖组织并为其“站台”的行径，毫不掩饰地暴露了其与现代文明世界为敌的本质。那一刻，我对这个政权再一次感到彻底的失望与愤怒。

《捍卫自由·乌克兰》雕塑，向人们传递了一个核心信息：“支持乌克兰，不仅是在支持一个国家，也是在捍卫全人类共同的自由价值”。

我和乌克兰站在一起，乌克兰必胜，荣誉属于乌克兰。愿自由长存，愿和平永驻。

校对：孔祥庆 翻译：戈冰

Why Do I Oppose the Chinese Communist Party’s Support for the Russian Invasion of Ukraine?

By Zhang Weiqing

On June 6, 2026, a large-scale theme sculpture named “Defending Freedom · Ukraine” held its grand unveiling ceremony at the Liberty Sculpture Park in Southern California. At that moment, I had the privilege of standing on-site, witnessing this sacred and deeply moving historical moment. The sculpture aims to pay tribute to Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and all his military and civilian citizens, commemorating their heroic and tenacious struggle over the past four-plus years—where the weak overcame the strong and the few defeated the many—to resist Russian aggression and steadfastly defend their national sovereignty, territorial integrity, and free democratic system.

Standing before the sculpture, my thoughts could not help but drift back to February 2022. When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the civilized world was filled with righteous indignation and unanimously condemned it in the strongest terms. However, the Chinese Communist Party authorities ran completely counter to this, loudly proclaiming that “Sino-Russian mutual trust has no ceiling, strategic cooperation has no forbidden zones, and generational friendship has no limits,” publicly expressing their connivance and support for Russia’s acts of aggression within the international community. The Chinese Communist Party has provided Russia with military supplies, purchased Russian oil, and helped Russia evade sanctions. Faced with this suffocating inversion of black and white, I publicly and resolutely expressed my opposition on WeChat; I called for peace, stood firmly with Ukraine, and voiced solidarity for dissidents who were arrested by Chinese police for holding up placards in the streets to support Ukraine. Because I knew that Russia’s invasion, as well as the Chinese Communist Party’s support for it, was not only a cruel trampling of a sovereign nation but also an open defiance of universal human values. Especially when seeing countless innocent civilians and children losing their lives and being displaced in indiscriminate attacks, I, as a person who still possesses a conscience, could not remain silent in the face of such atrocities.

My deeper reason for opposing the Chinese Communist Party’s support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine lies in the party’s long history of standing in opposition to world civilization. Since its founding and its rise to power, the Chinese Communist Party has consistently played the role of the largest “blood donor” and “protective umbrella” for dictatorial regimes in international diplomacy.

Looking back at history, in Asia, it fully nurtured the Cambodian Khmer Rouge regime, which directly caused as many as two million people to die unnaturally; it has long sustained the hereditary dictatorship of North Korea, leaving the people of the peninsula suffering under enslavement and allowing the nuclear crisis to persist to this day. In Latin America and Africa, it used billions of dollars to prolong the life of the Maduro regime in Venezuela, which was plagued by economic collapse and electoral manipulation; it has continuously aided Cuba, the only communist dictatorship in the Americas; and its dark shadow of debt relief and arms shipments could even be found behind the Sudanese dictator who committed genocide, and the authoritarian rule of Zimbabwe that destroyed its nation’s economy. Furthermore, it established a comprehensive strategic partnership with Iran to counteract international sanctions.

What is particularly ironic and infuriating to me is that on July 28, 2021, before the Afghan Taliban had fully seized power and before the U.S. military had completely withdrawn from Afghanistan, Wang Yi, the Chinese Communist Party’s then-foreign minister, high-profilely received a Taliban delegation in Tianjin, China, publicly praising the Taliban regime. This behavior of taking the initiative to collude with, prop up, and publicly endorse a globally recognized terrorist organization undisguisedly exposed its essence of taking the modern civilized world as its enemy. At that moment, I felt complete disappointment and anger toward this regime once again.

The “Defending Freedom · Ukraine” sculpture conveys a core message to people: “Supporting Ukraine is not only supporting a nation, but also defending the shared values of freedom for all mankind.”

I stand with Ukraine. Ukraine will surely win, and glory belongs to Ukraine. May freedom live on, and may peace endure forever.

Proofreader: Kong Xiangqing Translator: Ge Bing