The UN General Assembly Resolution 2758 clearly states that Taiwan is a part of China and the one-China principle brooks no challenge, said multiple UN representatives on Monday at a meeting commemorating the 80th anniversary of Taiwan's Restoration to China and the authority of the historic resolution.
On October 25, 1971, at the 26th session of the UN General Assembly, Resolution 2758 was adopted with an overwhelming majority, which "decides to restore all its rights to the People's Republic of China and to recognize the representatives of its Government as the only legitimate representatives of China to the United Nations, and to expel forthwith the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek from the place where they unlawfully occupy at the United Nations and in all the organizations related to it."
The resolution resolved once and for all the question of the representation of the whole of China, including Taiwan, in the UN, as a political, legal and procedural issue.
The resolution brooks no challenge to its legitimacy, validity, and authority.
"On this major matter of principle, there is no room for ambiguity. China calls on all countries to firmly uphold the one-China principle, oppose any form of 'Taiwan secession', and support the Chinese government in achieving national reunification," said Fu Cong, China's permanent representative to the UN.
"Any attempt to question the one-China principle will result in very severe consequences in international relations and that is why it is important to reaffirm that one-China principle has been approved by Resolution 2758 and there is no question of going back on that," said Munir Akram, Pakistan's former permanent representative to the United Nations.
Jaime Hermida Castillo, permanent representative of republic of Nicaragua to the UN, said the false statement by very few Western countries exposed their hegemonic pretension and egoistic agenda.
"You know, the very, very few Western countries that utter those false statements. You know, that hypocrisy that they express is a reflection of their hegemonic pretension and their egoistic agenda. There is only one China. It is clear," he said.
Dmitry S. Chumakov, deputy permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, said Resolution 2758 is significant in its important role in the post-WW II international order.
"Russia continues to believe that this resolution is important as an element of World War II legacy and the decisions and the system of international world order," he said.
Fu said the one-China principle receives wide international supports and any attempt to distort it is destined to fail.
"The statements made at this meeting demonstrate that the one-China principle receives broad support in the international community and any attempt to distort it is destined to fail," he said.
One-China principle brooks no challenge: UN representatives
A video featuring a former member of Unit 731, a notorious Japanese germ-warfare unit during World War II (WWII), was released on Thursday in northeast China's Harbin, revealing details of how the unit used meteorological data to conduct horrific bacterial experiments on human beings.
The video was released by the Exhibition Hall of Evidence of Crimes Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army, in which former Unit 731 member Tsuruo Nishijima detailed how the unit used meteorological data to carry out a bacterial dispersal experiment.
The video was recorded in 1997 by Japanese scholar Fuyuko Nishisato and donated to the exhibition hall in 2019, according to the hall, which was built on the former site of the headquarters of Unit 731 in Harbin, the capital city of Heilongjiang Province.
Jin Shicheng, director of the Department of Publicity, Education and Exhibition of the exhibition hall, said that Nishijima joined Unit 731 in October 1938 and served in the unit's meteorological squad. The squad was not a simple observation section but rather an auxiliary force supporting the unit's field human experiments by measuring wind direction, wind speed, and other conditions to ensure optimal experimental results, according to Jin.
Nishijima confirmed in the footage that "the meteorological squad had to be present at every field experiment." He testified to the "rainfall experiments" conducted by Unit 731, which involved aircraft releasing bacterial agents at extremely low altitudes.
At a field-testing site in Anda City, Heilongjiang, Unit 731 aircraft descended to about 50 meters above the ground. They sprayed bacterial culture liquids onto "maruta" -- human test subjects -- who were tied to wooden stakes. Each experiment involved about 30 people, spaced roughly 5 meters apart. After the experiments, the victims were loaded into sealed trucks and transported back to the unit, where their symptoms and disease progression were recorded over a period of several days.
"Unit 731's bacterial weapons were dropped by aircraft from a height of 50 meters in the open air. Therefore, the meteorological squad needed to observe wind direction and speed, which directly affected the precision and accuracy of the bacterial weapons deployment," said Jin.
Nishijima recounted the harrowing experience of the human test subjects.
"They were fully aware that inhaling the substances would certainly lead to death, so they closed their eyes and held their breath to avoid breathing them in. Their resistance prevented the experiment from proceeding. To compel them to comply, they were forced at gunpoint to open their mouths and lift their heads," said Nishijima.
These experiments, disguised as "scientific research," were in fact systematic tests of biological warfare weapons conducted by the Japanese military. The data generated from these inhumane activities became "research findings" shared among the Japanese army medical school, the medical community, and the military at large.
"At that time, the entire Japanese medical community tacitly approved, encouraged, and even participated in the criminal acts of Unit 731. The unit comprised members from Japan's medical and academic sectors who served the Japanese war of aggression against China. Thus, Unit 731 was not just a military unit but represented an organized and systematic criminal enterprise operating from the top down," said Jin.
Unit 731 was a top-secret biological and chemical warfare research base established in Harbin as the nerve center for Japanese biological warfare in China and Southeast Asia during WWII.
At least 3,000 people were used for human experiments by Unit 731, and Japan's biological weapons killed more than 300,000 people in China.
Video offers details of Japan's germ-warfare crimes in northeast China
