A statement on the Ministry of Foreign Affair’s Web site asserting that the Cairo Declaration determined Taiwan’s status should be removed or updated, an academic said.
The Chinese-language statement, titled “Taiwan’s Status in International Law” (臺灣的國際法地位) and posted during former president Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) administration, “caters to China’s sovereignty claims over Taiwan,” National Taiwan University law professor Chiang Huang-chih (姜皇池) wrote in an opinion piece published on Sunday in the Chinese-language Liberty Times (the Taipei Times’ sister paper).
The statement invokes the Cairo Declaration to argue that the Republic of China (ROC) has “exercised territorial sovereignty” over Taiwan in law and de