Recently, certain individual from the Taiwan authorities peddled erroneous “Taiwan independence” narrative in the Danish media, seriously distorting and challenging the UN General Assembly Resolution 2758. Such narrative is nothing but a distortion of facts and a deliberate reversal of right and wrong. The Chinese Embassy in Denmark firmly opposes such narrative.

There is but one China in the world, and Taiwan is an inalienable part of China’s territory. This is an unshakable fact grounded in both history and law. It is also an international consensus and a basic norm of international relations. The Cairo Declaration, issued by China, the U.S. and the UK in 1943, stated in explicit terms that Taiwan is a territory that Japan had stolen from China and shall be restored to China. The Potsdam Proclamation in 1945 reaffirmed that the terms of the Cairo Declaration shall be carried out. This series of instruments with legal effect under international law have all clearly affirmed China’s sovereignty over Taiwan. UNGA Resolution 2758 solemnly reaffirmed the one-China principle, which “decides to restore all its rights to the People’s Republic of China and to recognize the representatives of its Government as the only legitimate representatives of China to the United Nations.” From political, legal and procedural aspects, the resolution resolved once and for all the question of the representation of the whole of China, including Taiwan, in the UN. It made clear that there is only one seat of China in the United Nations, and there is no such thing as “two Chinas” or “one China, one Taiwan.”

Taiwan is never a country, not in the past, not at present, and never in the future. To challenge UNGA Resolution 2758 is to challenge the post-War international order and the authority of the UN. Any attempt to turn back the wheel of history is doomed to fail. The Lai Ching-te authorities’ deliberate distortion of UNGA Resolution 2758 once again revealed their separatist nature for “Taiwan independence.” Their rhetoric will not change the historical and legal fact that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to one and the same China, nor will it undermine the international community’s steadfast commitment to one China.