Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on September 8 that Taiwan had never been a country and never could become one. She said Taiwan is an inalienable part of China’s territory.
Mao said that the administration of Taiwan leader Lai Ching-te had deliberately distorted UN General Assembly Resolution 2758, once again exposing what she described as its separatist nature. She said such claims could not change the historical and legal fact that both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to one China.
Mao cited the 1943 Cairo Declaration, which stipulated that Taiwan, seized by Japan, would be returned to China, and the 1945 Potsdam Declaration, which reaffirmed that the terms of the Cairo Declaration would be implemented. She said the documents, which have force under international law, clearly confirmed China’s sovereignty over Taiwan.
