During his recent visit to the United States, Chinese President Xi Jinping repeatedly emphasized that "China and the United States fought side by side in World War II." Today (26th), the Mainland Affairs Council refuted the CCP's distortion of history, emphasizing that the People's Republic of China, established in 1949, did not exist during World War II, and that it was the Republic of China that truly fought side by side with the United States. In this regard, Wang Xinghuan, chairman of Taiwan's Foundation Progressive Party, said that although the refutation of the Mainland Affairs Council is a historical fact, the real key is not "which China was the United States' World War II ally." The Mainland Affairs Council's "Republic of China alliance theory" falls into China's unified framework of asserting Taiwan's sovereignty through historical narratives.
The Mainland Affairs Council stated today that the Republic of China is a sovereign country, and its non-subordination to the People's Republic of China is an objective fact and the status quo across the Taiwan Strait, which will not be changed by the Beijing authorities' self-deception and fallacies. The CCP spreads a wrong view of history and cannot erase the historical fact that the Republic of China was a solid ally of the United States during World War II.
Wang Xinghuan pointed out that the White House's mention of "China and the United States fought side by side in World War II" is intended to remind China, as a major power in today's international system, that it should assume corresponding international responsibilities and not to destroy the existing peaceful order in the Indo-Pacific region with unilateral actions. This is a warning to China's current expansionary behavior and does not replace China's historical narrative. Endorsement; China, in turn, twists and quotes this polite phrase in diplomatic situations as an endorsement of its historical status and even Taiwan's sovereignty claims. This is exactly China's consistent operation method. By reinterpreting wartime political documents such as the "Cairo Declaration" and the "Potsdam Declaration", it asserts that Taiwan belongs to China from the beginning.
Wang Xinghuan emphasized that these wartime documents were political declarations between the Allied Powers and were essentially pre-agreement before the peace treaty. Their effectiveness had long been replaced and revised by the "San Francisco Peace Treaty" officially signed after the war. According to the practice of international law, the change, disposal and ownership of territory after the war should be based on the peace treaty that ended the war, rather than the political declaration unilaterally issued by either party during the war. China's assertion of Taiwan's sovereignty with the "Cairo Declaration" and "Potsdam Declaration" is completely untenable in law.
Wang Xinghuan further pointed out that the Mainland Affairs Council emphasized that "the one who truly fought side by side with the United States was the Republic of China." Although the intention was to refute the CCP's non-existent history, the argumentative framework itself played exactly into China's hands. He explained that in the Allied camp during World War II, all countries that resisted fascism and jointly fought against the expansion of Axis hegemony were allies of the United States at that time, and the Republic of China was only one of them.
Wang Xinghuan emphasized that the real key is that neither the Republic of China nor the People's Republic of China gained sovereignty over Taiwan in the post-war peace treaty because of its participation in World War II. The "San Francisco Peace Treaty" clearly records Japan's renunciation of all rights over Taiwan and Penghu, but it does not specify which country Taiwan sovereignty will be transferred to. Neither the Republic of China nor the People's Republic of China is a party to the peace treaty, and neither of them can unilaterally claim that Taiwan's sovereignty belongs to them as a result of World War II. Taiwan Foundation believes that only by facing this point squarely can we truly expose China's legal warfare operations based on historical interpretation, instead of falling into another set of historical narrative disputes that also have "China" as the main subject.
Wang Xinghuan believes that to refute the Chinese Communist Party’s distortion of history, we should not just stay at the level of debate on “who is the real China?” but should return to the fundamental position that Taiwan’s sovereignty is determined by the Taiwanese people’s self-determination. This is the most solid foundation for the legal war against China.
