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14:41, September 20, 2007 |
Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian has stepped up his scheme to promote a "referendum" on the island's entry into the United Nations in recent months, and he and his followers in the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) should know their actions are intolerable by law and those who play with fire will get burned eventually.
Taiwan as part of China's sacred territories affirmed by international law
Taiwan, as a sacred, inseparable part of Chinese territories since the ancient times, has been proven by countless historical records, archeological finds so far unearthed, the common ethnical language, the culture, religion and local customs, as well as the kinship of people across the Taiwan Strait. It was once grabed by Japan through an unequal treaty signed at the end of the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-1895, which was launched by Japanese forces to annex Korea and invade China, but was later recovered and resumed as part of China again half a century later.
During World War II, the most intensified anti-fascist war, the Cairo Declaration, was concluded by China, the U.S, and Britain on Dec. 1, 1943, which had declared that Chinese territories seized by Japan after the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, including the four provinces in northeast China then, Taiwan and Penghu islands, had to be returned to China.
The Potsdam Proclamation reached by China, the U.S. and Britain on July 26, 1945 (subsequently adhered to by the former Soviet Union) specified that "the terms of the Cairo Declaration shall be carried out." On Sept. 2 of the same year, formal instruments of surrender signed by Japanese officials on behalf of the Emperor noted that Japan would faithfully and earnestly undertake the obligation of implementing the terms of the Potsdam Proclamation.
The Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Proclamation again announced the reaffirmation that Taiwan was Chinese territory.
Therefore, the ceremony was held to accept Japan's surrender in Taiwan province on October 25, 1945. From that point in time forward, the Chinese government recovered Taiwan and Penghu islands and resumed the exercise of sovereignty over them and, from that point in time forward, Taiwan and Penghu islands had been put back under jurisdiction of Chinese sovereignty.
In 1971, the 26th Session of the United Nations General Assembly adopted with an overwhelming majority Resolution 2758, which restored the legitimate right of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the UN, and its political legal implications were crystal clear, which are based on a self-evident fact. That is, China is an integral country, and Taiwan is part of it.
When China and Japan signed the Sino-Japanese joint statement in 1972 upon the normalization of their diplomatic ties and concluded the Sino-Japanese Peace and Friendship in 1978, the Japanese government also reiterated once again that it will adhere to the stance of observing the "Cairo Declaration" and the "Potsdam Proclamation". To date, more than 160 countries worldwide having forged diplomatic ties with China have all made it clear that Taiwan is part of China in their joint communiqués of forging diplomatic ties with the country.
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