The Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned Xi Jinping’s distortion of historical facts May 8 after the Chinese leader wrote an editorial for the Russian Gazette.
Xi’s article was an attempt to eliminate Taiwan’s sovereignty through fallacious arguments, the MOFA said. The ministry added that pacts cited by Xi as support for his position, including the 1943 Cairo Declaration and the 1945 Potsdam Declaration, confirm the right of the Republic of China to govern Taiwan, and do not speak to the status or rights of the People’s Republic of China, as it was not founded until 1949.
The status of Taiwan and its affiliated islands after World War II was resolved through the aforementioned documents, the ministry said. More recent agreements like 1971’s U.N. Resolution 2758 neither make mention of Taiwan nor state that Taiwan is part of China; furthermore, U.N. Resolution 2758 does not authorize China to represent Taiwan and its citizens in U.N. agencies.
The MOFA added that attempts by China and its leader to erase the fact that Taiwan is a sovereign country, mislead the international community into accepting the PRC’s one China principle, and deprive Taiwan of the rights to join the U.N. and associated bodies are violations of international law.
As such, the ministry called on the global community to object to China’s ongoing distortion of history and its misinterpretation of U.N. Resolution 2758. The MOFA emphasized that only Taiwan’s elected government can represent the country’s more than 23 million citizens in the U.N. system and other global contexts. (POC-E)
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