Editing Columbia, Maryland (section)

== Sister cities ==
Columbia is a [[sister city]] to [[Cergy-Pontoise]], France, [[Tres Cantos]], Spain, [[Tema]], Ghana, [[Cap-Haïtien]], Haiti, and [[Liyang]], China. The Columbia Association International and Multicultural Programs Advisory Committee organizes a summer exchange program for French and Spanish students enrolled in Howard County Public Schools.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lemke |first=Tim |date=2018-10-25 |title=Student summer exchange program sends teens to France and Spain, welcomes Europeans to Columbia |url=https://columbiaassociation.org/arts-culture/student-summer-exchange-program/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230925135132/https://columbiaassociation.org/arts-culture/student-summer-exchange-program/ |archive-date=2023-09-25 |access-date=2024-06-09 |website=Columbia Association |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2013, CA announced its new sister city relationship with [[Tema]], a port city in [[Ghana]]. The occasion was marked with a Ghana Fest on November 17, 2013,<ref>{{cite web |title=International & Multicultural Advisory Committee (IMAC) Meeting Agenda |url=https://d2814gcejiq38s.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/international-multicultural-advisory-committee_2014-08-06.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180214073437/https://d2814gcejiq38s.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/international-multicultural-advisory-committee_2014-08-06.pdf |archive-date=2018-02-14}}</ref> and the official agreement was signed in 2014.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Sister Cities |url=https://columbiaassociation.org/community-program/international-exchanges/sister-cities/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240609200059/https://columbiaassociation.org/community-program/international-exchanges/sister-cities/ |archive-date=2024-06-09 |access-date=2024-06-09 |website=Columbia Association |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2016, [[Cap-Haïtien]], Haiti became a sister city followed by [[Liyang]], China in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|date=September 11, 2018|title=Columbia, Maryland's newest sister city is Liyang, China|url=https://www.columbiaassociation.org/blog/columbia-marylands-newest-sister-city-is-liyang-china/|access-date=October 3, 2020|website=Columbia Association|archive-date=September 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923064546/https://www.columbiaassociation.org/blog/columbia-marylands-newest-sister-city-is-liyang-china/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Holzberg |first=Janene |title=Columbia poised to add China's Liyang as sister city |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/howard/bs-md-ho-columbia-sister-city-20180613-story.html |access-date=October 3, 2020 |website=[[The Baltimore Sun]] |date=June 15, 2018 |archive-date=March 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230310105028/https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/howard/bs-md-ho-columbia-sister-city-20180613-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="hidden">{{Cite book |last1=Hamilton |first1=Clive |title=Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World |title-link=Hidden Hand (book) |last2=Ohlberg |first2=Mareike |date=September 3, 2020 |publisher=[[Simon and Schuster]] |isbn=978-1-78607-784-4 |location= |pages=[https://archive.org/details/hidden-hand-exposing-how-the-chinese-communist-party-is-reshaping-the-world/page/92/mode/2up 93] |language=en |chapter=Political elites on the periphery |oclc=1150166864 |author-link=Clive Hamilton |author-link2=Mareike Ohlberg}}</ref> The sister city agreement with Liyang included a requirement that Columbia support the China government's [[One China]] principle.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Magnier |first=Mark |date=August 9, 2024 |title=US-China sister-city project, meant to build bridges, targeted as the two countries spar |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3273969/us-china-sister-city-project-meant-build-bridges-targeted-two-countries-spar |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240809161415/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3273969/us-china-sister-city-project-meant-build-bridges-targeted-two-countries-spar |archive-date=August 9, 2024 |access-date=August 9, 2024 |work=[[South China Morning Post]]}}</ref>
*[[Cergy-Pontoise]], France (1977)<ref name="columbiaassociation.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.columbiaassociation.com/content/getinvolved/teens/exchange_programs.cfm?expand=3 |title=Columbia Association |access-date=January 22, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203073736/http://www.columbiaassociation.com/content/getinvolved/teens/exchange_programs.cfm?expand=3 |archive-date=February 3, 2014 }}</ref>
*[[Tres Cantos]], Spain (1990)<ref name="columbiaassociation.com"/>
*[[Tema]], Ghana (2014)<ref name=":0" />
*[[Cap-Haïtien]], Haiti (2016)<ref name=":0" />
*[[Liyang]], China (2018)<ref name="hidden" />

=== Related cities ===
[[The Rouse Company]], now owned by the [[Howard Hughes Corporation]], owns and operates multiple [[National Urban Policy and New Community Development Act of 1970|HUD Title VII-New Town]] planned community developments along with Columbia. These include [[The Woodlands, Texas]], [[Bridgeland Community, Texas]], and [[Summerlin, Nevada]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Howard Hughes Corporation Properties|url=http://www.howardhughes.com/properties.html|access-date=December 2, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131205182004/http://www.howardhughes.com/properties.html|archive-date=December 5, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>