Behind 2758 Resolution: One-China Principle Explained

To really understand today's tensions in the Taiwan Strait, we need to go back to a UN resolution adopted in 1971. UN Resolution 2758 recognized the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate representative of China to the United Nations and Taiwan is a province of China. Yet in the decades that followed, this principle was quietly hollowed out in the United States.

The US has played a careful balancing act: acknowledging One China in words, while steadily eroding it in practice. Congress writes the mandate. Think tanks craft the narrative. Arms sales lock in the outcome. It's a coordinated cycle that has shaped the US policy on Taiwan for decades. To Washington, Taiwan is treated no more than a pawn for its Asia-Pacific agenda.

Where is the Taiwan Strait heading next? Our new documentary series, Mist over the Taiwan Strait, cuts through myths to uncover how documents, interests, and power dynamics have quietly shaped today's tensions.

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