Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, who represents China’s “Warcraft Diplomacy,” visits the site of the “Potsdam Declaration” in July 1945, which reconfirmed the return of Taiwan from Japan to China just before the end of World War II. “We will make Taiwan unification a reality without fail.” The United States, Britain, and China, the victors of World War II, agreed to Japan’s unconditional surrender and return of occupied territories through the ‘Cairo Declaration’ in 1943, and two years later reaffirmed this through the Potsdam Declaration.
Chin visited the Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam near Berlin, where the declaration was made, on the 10th and said, “The Potsdam Declaration reaffirmed the provisions of the Cairo Declaration that the Chinese territory taken by Japan, including Taiwan, should be returned to China.” “This is a significant achievement of the global anti-fascist war, and it is exchanged for the lives and blood of 35 million Chinese soldiers,” he stressed. He also wrote in the guestbook that he would “preserve post-war international order, promote world peace and prosperity, and realize China’s national reunification.”
In particular, Chin criticized the United States, saying, “The United States, which drafted the Potsdam Declaration at the time, is now supporting Taiwan’s independence and division while putting it on the back burner.” “The Chinese people will never tolerate this,” he said.
However, the leaders of the United States, Britain, and China at the time of the Potsdam Declaration were US President Harry Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Republic of China President Chiang Kai-shek, respectively. After Japan’s surrender in August 1945, Jiang was defeated in a fierce civil war with the Chinese Communist Party and withdrew to Taiwan. In response, some point out that the fact that the manager pro expressed his will to unify Taiwan in Potsdam was a ‘misstep’ that only raised Taiwan’s status.
Chin also met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on the same day. At this meeting, he repeatedly claimed to be a mediator of the war in Ukraine, and made remarks that seemed to be wary of Western solidarity supporting Ukraine, such as Germany and the United States. He insisted that “prolonging the war would only lead to more hardships,” and that “a ceasefire should be reached as soon as possible and a political solution realized through dialogue.”
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Source: Donga
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