With Resolution 2758, the UN General Assembly recognized on October 25, 1971 that the government representatives of the People’s Republic, founded in Beijing in 1949, were the “only legitimate representatives of China in the UN,” said the President on the anniversary in a speech in Beijing on Monday. It was a “great event” that the “new China” got its legal seat in the UN.
Xi Jinping made no specific mention of Taiwan in his speech. As a consequence of the People’s Republic’s admission to the UN, the representatives of the Taiwan-based national Chinese Republic of China had been expelled from the UN. The national Chinese Kuomintang government had fled to Taiwan after the defeat in the civil war against the communists, while they founded the People’s Republic in Beijing in 1949.
The leadership in Beijing regards the now democratic Taiwan only as part of the People’s Republic and threatens a conquest in order to achieve “reunification”. Beijing is also trying to isolate Taiwan internationally. Because of its “one-China doctrine”, diplomatic partners are not allowed to maintain official relations with Taipei. Because of the pressure from Beijing, Germany only has an unofficial representation in Taipei. Tensions between China and Taiwan had recently intensified.