FM Wang Yi: Taiwan has been an integral part of China since ancient times. It never was, is not, and never will be a country. Its return to China is a victorious outcome of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the Second World War.
Its status has been definitively fixed by a series of international legal instruments, including the Cairo Declaration, the Potsdam Proclamation, Japan’s Instrument of Surrender, and Resolution 2758 of the U.N. General Assembly. Any attempt to create “two Chinas” or “one China, one Taiwan” is doomed to fail.
Resolving the Taiwan question and realizing the complete reunification of our motherland is a historic process that cannot be stopped. Those who support it are on the right side of history; those who defy it shall perish.
Eighty years ago, Chinese soldiers and civilians, including our Taiwan compatriots, defeated the Japanese aggressors after heroic and strenuous fighting, achieved the great victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and realized Taiwan’s return to the motherland.
Treaties and instruments such as the Cairo Declaration, the Potsdam Proclamation and the Japanese Instrument of Surrender clearly affirmed China’s sovereignty over Taiwan. China’s recovery of Taiwan is an outcome of WWII victory and an integral part of the postwar international order.