China: MFA Spokesperson
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said yesterday that “having renounced all rights and claims under the Treaty of San Francisco, we are not in a position to recognize Taiwan’s legal status.”
MFA Spokesperson responded: Prime Minister Takaichi deliberately chose not to mention the… pic.twitter.com/QyszJBUfOW
— CHINA MFA Spokesperson 中国外交部发言人 (@MFA_China) November 27, 2025
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said yesterday that “having renounced all rights and claims under the Treaty of San Francisco, we are not in a position to recognize Taiwan’s legal status.”
MFA Spokesperson responded: Prime Minister Takaichi deliberately chose not to mention the… pic.twitter.com/QyszJBUfOW
— CHINA MFA Spokesperson 中国外交部发言人 (@MFA_China) November 27, 2025
The complete statement:
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said yesterday that “having renounced all rights and claims under the Treaty of San Francisco, we are not in a position to recognize Taiwan’s legal status.”
MFA Spokesperson responded: Prime Minister Takaichi deliberately chose not to mention the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Proclamation—two international legal documents with full effect and underscored in the Sino-Japanese Joint Statement and the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship, and singularly brought up the illegal and invalid “Treaty of San Francisco”. She even sought to play up the false notion that Taiwan’s status is undetermined. That just compounds the wrongdoing. China firmly rejects that and calls for utmost vigilance from the international community.
We once again urge the Japanese side to reflect on and correct its wrongdoing, retract the erroneous remarks at once, and take practical steps to honor its commitments to China and do what is least expected of Japan as a UN member state.
Japan’s opposition party leader argued that since Prime Minister Takaichi stopped referring to a specific contingency example, she has “effectively retracted” her remarks.
MFA Spokesperson responded: “Stop referring to” is not the same as “retracting” the wrong remarks. The two are completely different in nature. The Japanese side hopes to downplay Prime Minister Takaichi’s erroneous remarks and make it go away by “not referring to” them. That is just self-deceiving and wishful thinking, and China would absolutely not accept that.