My Take | Does UN Resolution 2758 support ‘one China’?
- Foreign Minister Wang Yi reignited a war of words with Taipei at the weekend over the meaning(s) of the 1971 resolution that ejected the Republic of China from the United Nations and recognised the People’s Republic of China as the only legitimate government of China and permanent member of the Security Council
Another day, another dispute over “one China”. And since it has been at the annual General Assembly of the United Nations in New York, you have Beijing and Taipei naturally going at it, unsurprisingly, over the meaning(s) of UN General Assembly Resolution 2758, the pivotal resolution in 1971 that ejected the island from the UN and handed its membership seat over to the mainland.
Don’t expect much light from the fireworks and noise from the latest war of words across the Taiwan Strait. There won’t be any closure any time soon. But I did find it educational to have spent a whole day reading the draft resolutions leading to 2758 and the various disputes over its interpretations over the decades. The UN and its affiliates put everything online. Yes, I know I have a dry reading taste and no social life. Here it is, short and sweet:
“Resolution on Admitting Peking
“Resolution 2758 (XXVI)
“THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
“Recalling the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.