Buenos Aires, November 25 (NA) – The spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mao Ning, stated this Tuesday that “it is an irrefutable fact that cannot be distorted or manipulated that there is only one China in the world and Taiwan is an inalienable part of its territory.” Mao's statements were a response to comments by a few individuals in Japan who claimed that “it was the Republic of China, not the People's Republic of China, that accepted Japan's surrender, therefore the People's Republic of China has no right to discuss the issue of Taiwan,” as reported by the Argentine News Agency. “This is a change of government in which China, as a subject under international law, has not changed, and China's sovereignty and territorial borders have remained unchanged,” the spokesperson emphasized. “As a natural consequence, the government of the People's Republic of China enjoys and fully exercises Chinese sovereignty, which includes sovereignty over the region of Taiwan,” she added. “Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory,” stated Mao Ning. She also noted that the 1972 Japan-China Joint Communique establishes that the Government of Japan recognizes the Government of the People's Republic of China as the sole legal government of China. “There is only one China in the world,” she reiterated. “Those who make such statements either do not know history or deliberately try to distort it and disregard international law,” commented the spokesperson at a daily press conference. In 1945, Japan signed the Instrument of Surrender, in which it committed to faithfully fulfill the obligations established in the Potsdam Proclamation and unconditionally return Taiwan to China, Mao recalled, as cited today by Xinhua. “China resumed the exercise of its sovereignty over the island and recovered it both in law and in practice,” she pointed out. Similarly, she explained: “In 1949 the Government of the People's Republic of China replaced that of the Republic of China. This is an irrefutable fact that cannot be distorted or manipulated,” the spokesperson Mao Ning concluded.
