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Former Member of the European Parliament urges international community to counter pro-China UN resolution against Taiwan (www.taipeitimes.com)
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Former German member of the European Parliament Reinhard Butikofer on Thursday urged the international community to counter China’s use of UN Resolution 2758 against Taiwan.

He made the comments at a conference hosted by the Taipei Representative Office in Berlin, saying that the deliberate misinterpretation of the resolution is an aspect of Beijing’s “lawfare.”

Resolution 2758, passed in 1971, states that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is the only legitimate representative of China at the UN, which enabled Beijing to replace the Republic of China (ROC), Taiwan’s official name, as a permanent member of the UN Security Council.

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Butikofer, who chaired the event, said that the essence of China’s legal warfare is to export its domestic system of rule by law as part of the global order.

The EU as a whole, including Germany, does not recognize China’s interpretation of UN Resolution 2758 as making Taiwan part of its sovereign territory, he said.

As Beijing is aggressively seeking the support of foreign countries to lend legitimacy to its claims, democracies around the world must take a stronger stance against China’s false narrative, he said.

The resolution was concerned with determining China’s representation in the UN, without making any reference to Taiwan, its legal status or representation in the UN framework, he said.

Beijing’s push to conflate its distorted version of the resolution with the so-called “one China” principle has repercussions not only for Taiwan’s representation in international organizations, but also peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region, Representative to Germany Ku Jiu-Sheng (谷瑞生) said.

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