Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says doubting 1971 UN stand on Taiwan is ‘absurd’

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said a 1971 United Nations resolution had left no ambiguity on the one-China principle, while calling Taiwan a province of China.

He also condemned as “absurd and dangerous” any argument to the contrary.

“Taiwan is an inalienable part of China’s territory,” Wang asserted on Friday, as he took reporters’ questions on the sidelines of the annual policymaking meetings in Beijing known as the “two sessions”.

Asked whether UN Resolution 2758 could be seen as “not equivalent to the one-China principle and did not prevent Taiwan from participating in international organisations”, Wang denounced the argument as “a blatant challenge to the authority of the United Nations and the post-war international order”.

“It is absurd and dangerous. Those who disseminate such arguments should … brush up on their basic common sense,” he said.

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China’s top diplomat Wang Yi lays out directions for country’s foreign policies

China’s top diplomat Wang Yi lays out directions for country’s foreign policies

Resolution 2758 of October 1971 recognised the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as the sole legitimate representative of China at the UN, while expelling “forthwith the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek” from the UN and “all the organisations related to it”.