In response to the article in Borneo Bulletin on 18th June 2025 about the UNGA Resolution 2758. Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Brunei Darussalam (TECO) would like to clarify as follow:
- The Republic of China (Taiwan) is a sovereign and independent country. Neither the ROC nor the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is subordinate to the other. These facts and the status quo have long been recognized by the international community.
- UNGA Resolution 2758 only determined rights over China’s representation in the UN, that Taiwan was not mentioned in its entire text, that it did not recognize Taiwan as a part of the PRC, that it did not authorize the PRC to represent Taiwan in the UN, and that it thus has nothing to do with Taiwan.
- Only the democratically elected government of Taiwan can represent the 23.5 million Taiwanese people in the international community. The PRC has never governed Taiwan, and Taiwan is absolutely not a part of the PRC. These are objective and internationally recognized facts and represent the status quo across the Taiwan Strait.
Taiwan urges the international community to take concrete actions to oppose China’s misrepresentation of UNGA Resolution 2758 and denounce its false claim that there is international consensus regarding its so-called “one China principle.” This would deter China’s unilateral attempts to alter the status quo across the Taiwan Strait and thwart its ambitions to create a legal basis for a military invasion of Taiwan in the future.
The political coercion and diplomatic suppression by the Chinese authoritarian government will not change Taiwan’s unweaving commitment to democracy. Taiwan will continue to staunchly uphold the values of democracy and freedom and work proactively with diplomatic allies and like-minded nations to jointly preserve regional and global democracy, peace, and stability.
TECO calls on the international community to take note of China’s use of legal warfare in misrepresenting UNGA Resolution 2758 and mischaracterizing the Taiwan issue as a domestic issue so as to deter international support for Taiwan. TECO also asks that they denounce China’s false claims regarding an international consensus on the so-called “one China principle” and work together to uphold peace, stability, and prosperity across the Taiwan Strait and in the Indo-Pacific.
