Overview

• In a statement emailed Monday, the American Institute in Taiwan said Beijing is intentionally mischaracterising the Cairo Declaration, Potsdam Proclamation and the San Francisco Treaty to support coercive claims over the island.
• The AIT said none of those documents determined Taiwan’s ultimate political status and stressed that the 1951 treaty had Japan renounce claims without assigning sovereignty.
• Beijing rejects the San Francisco Treaty as illegal and invalid, while the AIT called such arguments part of a broader campaign to isolate Taiwan and constrain other countries’ choices.
• Taiwan’s foreign minister welcomed the U.S. statement and reiterated that the Republic of China and the People’s Republic of China are not subordinate to each other and that Beijing cannot represent Taiwan internationally.
• U.S. Representative Chris Smith has introduced a congressional resolution condemning what he called China’s historical revisionism over World War II narratives.