Can the EU’s take on Taiwan from the UN 2758 resolution for One China policy be myopic?

How many people can discuss about a historic United Nations resolution without reading it? When it comes to the 2758 UN Resolution from 1971 the answer is too many. This time the European Parliament came to issue a press release on that last week.

Quite understandably the topic is of significant global importance as it dicusses the “One China” policy that has been established by the United Nations and demands that all the vast territories of China are treated by the world as One Country including Taiwan. By default all the countries in the UN system adhere to that anyway.

Let’s take a pause for the cause and read the famous 2758 resolution in the lead image of this article, right? Alternatively, there it is right here.

So, the European Parliament in its press release of last week “underlines that UN resolution 2758 does not take a position on Taiwan”. Let’s go just above and read the thing, shall we?

It explicitly recognizes the representatives of the Government of the People’s Republic of China as the only legitimate representatives of China to the United Nations. It also restores all the rights to the People’s Republic of China and stresses that People’s Republic of China is “one of five permanent members of the Security Council”.

Last, but certainly not least, the text of the 2758 Resolution dictates that the UN expels then the representatives of Chiang Kai-Shek from the place they unlawfully occupied in the United Nations and all the organizations related to it.

Who was Chiang Kai-Shek? He lived from 1887 to 1975 and was the head of the Nationalist Kuomingtang party that when he was defeated by Mao Zedong he fled to Taiwan to try to form a rival government there. And the UN 2758 resolution came exactly to officially expel him and his representatives denying thus any power to the Taiwan “wannabe government” and recognizing instead only Beijing as the sole rulling government of One China, which is the People’s Republic of China and nothing else.

After reading the above cited 2758 UN Resolution with your own eyes, does it still feel that it doesn’t take a position on Taiwan? If someone did a Ctrl+F and didn’t find the word Taiwan in it, this isn’t enough to issue a press release. He or she also needs to make the effort and Google Chiang Kai-Shek and know that the reasoning behind the UN resolution of 1971 was in the first place to ban any “wannabe government” in Taiwan.

Investing in an unfortunate Ctrl+F the European Parliament in its press release calls for the…universe to treat Taiwan as a stand alone entity to be represented in international organizations. The Parliament mentions the WHO, International Civil Aviation Organization, even Interpol.

In a rare oxymoron figure of speech the Parliament later adds that it recognizes the “One China” Policy as the “political foundation of EU-China relations”. If calling for WHO to have Taiwan representation is recognizing the One China policy, then words have just lost their meaning in Brussels these days.

There is one thing that is so very correct in the Parliament’s press release though. And that is none other than the phrase saying “The One China Policy is the political foundation fo EU-China relations”. Given the rare oxymoron produced here, the rest in the text is like shooting oneself in the foot when it comes to EU-China relations.

Apparently, this is a political crisis with China spurred by the European Parliament next to the recent trade war spurred with the tariffs in electric vehicles from China. All of it works as a mere whole EU front against China, a severe diplomatic dispute and a zero sum trade game from which inescapably everybody loses.

In addition to the emptying public money coffers, there is always the poor citizen to suffer the most from all that. Let’s not forget that that press release was issued at a time that Volkswagen Group is handsomely closing quite a few factories in Germany, the country that is the powerhouse of the EU and now stagnates in recession for the first time in 20 years.

And you all know what happens when the Germans get poor, they migrate to far far away right.