Fact checking the claim of the Chinese Embassy

The Business Mirror reported yesterday, August 15, 2023, that Chinese Deputy Chief of Mission Zhou Zhiyong claimed during a news conference at the Kamuning Pandesal Forum in Quezon City that the Potsdam Declaration and the Cairo Declaration stated that “all territories Japan has seized from the Chinese, including those of Nansha Islands and Xisha Islands, shall be restored to China.”

This claim is false.

What the 1943 Cairo Declaration stated is that “all the territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese, including Manchuria, Formosa, and the Pescadores shall be restored to the Republic of China” and that “Japan will also be expelled from all other territories which she has taken by violence and greed.” The Cairo declaration never mentioned the “Nansha Islands” (Spratlys) or the “Xisha Islands” (Paracels). The Spratlys and the Paracels fell under the phrase “Japan will also be expelled from all other territories which she has taken by violence and greed,” which phrase never identified to what country these other territories would be restored.

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