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title: "Ken Sim promised a post-election China trip to diplomats, absent from ABC Vancouver's public platform"
description: "theBreaker published FOI video today showing Mayor Ken Sim promising to visit six Chinese cities after the October 17 election, a commitment made twice to Chinese diplomats but absent from ABC Vancouver's public English platform."
canonical_url: "https://voche.me/news/ken-sim-china-trip-promise-october-17"
last_updated: "2026-10-17T19:03:16.494Z"
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Mayor Ken Sim promised to visit six Chinese cities after the October 17 election, according to FOI video published by theBreaker journalist Bob Mackin on election day. The commitment was made to Chinese-language media at a February 6 city hall meeting, Mackin reports. [Lenny Zhou (周楠)](/candidates/lenny-zhou), an ABC Vancouver City Council candidate, served as Mandarin translator at the meeting.

The promise does not appear in ABC Vancouver's public English platform and was not formally tabled at an open council meeting, Mackin reports. theBreaker's article did not include a response from Sim or ABC Vancouver.

## The cities named

Sim said "After this election... we will be planning a trip to China" and named the destinations as Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Shantou, and Greater Bay Area, according to theBreaker. Mackin reports Sim made the same commitment twice: at a Lunar New Year event in January 2026, and at a celebration of the anniversary of Communist rule in September 2026.

## FIFA cost claims at the same meeting

At the February 6 meeting, Sim told the Chinese-language media audience that Vancouver's FIFA World Cup exposure was $5 million, with "over a billion dollars of economic activity" from seven B.C. Place matches, Mackin reports. Provincial estimates put Vancouver's gross bill at $320 to $338 million, Mackin writes, with $1 billion flowing into the B.C. economy by 2031 under a methodology the province has not published. The same meeting where Sim made false claims about Sean Orr was also where the China trip promise and FIFA figures were shared, Mackin reports.

## Both candidates on today's ballot

[Ken Sim](/candidates/ken-sim) is the incumbent mayor, running for re-election with ABC Vancouver. [Lenny Zhou (周楠)](/candidates/lenny-zhou) is an ABC Vancouver candidate for City Council. Both are on the ballot today.

Polls are open until 8 PM across Vancouver. Find your voting station at [voche.me/where-to-vote](/where-to-vote). The full theBreaker report by Bob Mackin is at thebreaker.news.

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