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CAIRO. – Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Sunday that the result of the leadership election in the Taiwan region cannot change the basic fact that there is only one China in the world and Taiwan is part of China.

Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks during a press conference following his meeting with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry in Cairo.

The outcome of the recent leadership election in the Taiwan region also won’t change the prevailing consensus of the international community on adhering to the one-China principle, he said.

Wang noted that 80 years ago in Cairo, China, the US and Britain issued the Cairo Declaration, which clearly stipulated that all the territories Japan had stolen, including Taiwan, should be restored to China.

Later, the Article Eight of the Potsdam Proclamation, which was jointly issued by China, the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union in 1945, required that the “terms of the Cairo Declaration shall be carried out,” and then Japan accepted the Potsdam Declaration and declared unconditional surrender, he said.

The series of documents with international legal effect formed an integral part of the post-war international order, and laid the historical and legal foundation that Taiwan is an inalienable territory of China, Wang said.