Taiwan should join the UN
Taiwan must fight for recognition, which was completely ignored by former president Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) “diplomatic truce” policy in the past eight years. President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) administration should work hard on pushing for Taiwan’s membership in the UN and recognition by individual nations.
No person, no organization and no nation can deny that the People’s Republic of China is “the only legitimate representative of China to the UN,” as stated in UN General Assembly Resolution 2758, passed on Oct. 25, 1971. Even the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) had to accept this after it was defeated in China and escaped to Taiwan in 1949. Taiwanese did not participate in the “Chinese Civil War,” and Taiwan served as a shelter after the KMT’s defeat.
Resolution 2758 also stated that “the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) were expelled from the place they unlawfully occupy at the UN.” The UN did successfully expel them in 1971. Today, not only Chiang himself, but also his UN representatives are all dead.
China likes to interpret Resolution 2758 as “the one China principle” that includes Taiwan. If this interpretation were correct, refugees from Syria could claim Germany and many other European nations that accept refugees as territories of Syria.
KMT members and their followers came to Taiwan as refugees in 1945 to 1949. The principle is correct only if one China does not include Taiwan.
The San Francisco Peace Treaty signed by 48 nations in 1951 and the Taipei Treaty signed by the Republic Of China and Japan in 1952 indicated that Japan renounced its claim over Taiwan, but did not mention any beneficiary.
Taiwan has been a democratic, sovereign nation since 1996, when Taiwanese democratically elected their first president.
Charles Hong
Columbus, Ohio
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