No other state has title to Taiwan

After the Treaty of San Francisco entered into force, Taiwan became a territorial entity and has belonged to no other country in the world.

Frank Chiang is president of the Taiwan Public Policy Council in the US and professor of law at Fordham University School of Law. The quotations and the theories discussed in this article are adapted from his articles "State, Sovereignty, and Taiwan" (Fordham International Law Journal, 2000), "The Territorial State and Taiwan" (The Comparative Law Journal of Japan, 2003), and "One-China Policy and Taiwan" (Fordham International Law Journal, 2004).