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In August 2025, Texas governor Greg Abbott signed a law prohibiting sister city agreements with countries designated foreign adversaries.
The Texas sister-city bill was signed on June 20, 2025, not in August 2025.
Full reasoning
Texas House Bill 128 — the bill on sister-city agreements with foreign adversaries — was signed by Governor Greg Abbott on June 20, 2025, according to the official Texas Legislature bill history. The same official page lists the bill as becoming effective on September 1, 2025. So the article's month is wrong: the signing happened in June 2025, not August 2025.
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- 89(R) History for HB 128 | Texas Legislature Online
Last Action: 06/20/2025 ... Signed by the Governor 06/20/2025 ... Effective on 9/1/25.
In 2017, Hirofumi Yoshimura (the mayor of Osaka) ended the city's 60-year relationship with San Francisco due to the erection of a memorial (the San Francisco Comfort Women Memorial) to comfort women in downtown San Francisco.
Osaka did not formally end the sister-city relationship in 2017; the formal termination happened in October 2018.
Full reasoning
The San Francisco memorial controversy began in 2017, but the formal end of the Osaka–San Francisco sister-city relationship came later. Contemporary reporting states that Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura terminated official ties in October 2018, after earlier objections in 2017. The Guardian's report explains that Yoshimura postponed the formal severing after Mayor Edwin Lee's death and that he then ended the relationship in 2018. So the article compresses the dispute and gets the year of the actual termination wrong.
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- Osaka drops San Francisco as sister city over 'comfort women' statue | The Guardian
Thu 4 Oct 2018 ... Osaka's mayor, Hirofumi Yoshimura, terminated official ties this week ... However he postponed the formal severing of ties following Lee's death last December.
- STATEMENT FROM MAYOR LONDON BREED ON THE SISTER CITY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SAN FRANCISCO AND OSAKA
Thursday, October 04, 2018 ... it is 'unfortunate' that Osaka city has decided to terminate a sister-city relationship over a statue symbolizing Asian 'comfort women'.