Support for One-China Principle sends clear message to Taiwan

of America despite its knack for pulling mischief and provocations to test China’s resolve.

The prevailing consensus of the international community is that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China and will remain so, being at the core of Asian giant’s core interests.

History and international legal frameworks buttress this position.

Some 80 years ago in Cairo, China, the United States and Britain issued the Cairo Declaration, which clearly stipulated that all the territories Japan had stolen from China, including Taiwan, should be restored to China.

Later, the Article Eight of the Potsdam Proclamation, which was jointly issued by China, the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union in 1945, required that the “terms of the Cairo Declaration shall be carried out,” and then Japan accepted the Potsdam Declaration and declared unconditional surrender.

The series of documents with international legal effect formed an integral part of the post-war international order, and laid the historical and legal foundation that Taiwan is an inalienable territory of China.

Now, the majority of the international community affirm the One-China Principle.

This is not going to change soon. Foreign Minister Wang Yi said last Sunday that the result of the leadership election in the Taiwan region cannot change the basic fact that there is only one China in the world and Taiwan is part of China.

He dismissed prospects of the so-called Taiwanese independence, and outlined measures to forestall that including punishing trouble-makers.

Yet, the international community holds an important remit of rejecting the so-called independence, based on firm principles and commitments.

Said Wang: “We believe that the international community, in accordance with the one-China principle, will continue to support the just cause of the Chinese people in striving for national reunification and opposing the separatist activities of seeking Taiwan’s independence.”

China’s allies such as Zimbabwe must reaffirm support for China’s One China Principle and assert that they stand with China.

It is only predictable that very soon Taiwan will try to bring attention to itself through grandstanding and other provocative acts to try to impress its allies such as the United States like it did in 2023, which saw Taiwanese leaders making “stop-overs” in the US while a delegation of US lawmakers made a visit to the region.

Those antics must be rejected, and China will stand resolutely on principle and invoke strong warnings and countermeasures where necessary.