torsdag 2. oktober 2025

China Uses UN to Advance Biggest Territorial Claim

The Chinese government issued a rare white paper this week to reinforce its sovereignty claim over Taiwan as the United Nations General Assembly wrapped up its annual gathering in New York. The position paper released by China's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday was part of an escalating war of words over wartime legalese that has unfolded across interested capitals in recent weeks.

The official document was released on the last day of the U.N. General Assembly’s high-level debate and followed earlier comments by the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), Washington’s de facto embassy in Taipei, which had openly rejected Beijing’s interpretation of World War II-era agreements that China said proved its claimed to the self-ruled island democracy.