A group of Americans and Chinese Americans plan to organize One China Committee to support peaceful unification of China. The committee's activities will include writing letters to Congress and making the American public aware of the one China issue. The one China issue is more legal than political. Taiwan as a part of China is affirmed in international instruments, endorsed in the Peace Treaty, and reiterated in the Shanghai Communique.
The Committee will be formed as a private, non-profit organization with no government support. Its inauguration is scheduled on Saturday, October 18, 2003 in Chicago.
Below is a draft of the Committee statement and goals.
Taiwan is an integral part of China. The Cairo Declaration of 1943 explicitly stated that Formosa (Taiwan) should be restored to China. It was reiterated at Potsdam in 1945 and was accepted by Japan in her surrender instrument on September 2, 1945. Article IV of the Treaty of Peace between China and Japan of 1952 provides "all treaties, conventions and agreements concluded before December 9, 1941 between China and Japan have become null and void as a consequence of the war." Taiwan was ceded to Japan by China in 1895 by the Treaty of Shimonoseki. As stated in the Peace Treaty, the Treaty of Shimonoseki became null and void. Accordingly, Taiwan had legally been returned to China.
The present status of Taiwan regime which occupied a tiny part of Chinese territory is the result of continuation of civil war between the Communists and the Nationalists. There are two political entities, but not two Chinas.
According to the Shanghai Communique of 1979, "the United States acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. The United States Government does not challenge that position."
The Taiwan Relations Act of 1979 provides: "It is the policy of the United States. . . to preserve and promote extensive, close, and friendly commercial, cultural, and other relations between the people of the United States and the people in Taiwan. . . to provide Taiwan with arms of a defensive character . . . to maintain the capacity of the United States to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion that would jeopardize the security, or the social or economic system, of the people on Taiwan." Though with good intention, the Act is unprecedented in international area and a deviation of international law..
The Committee goals are to reaffirm the principle of one China, support peaceful settlement between the government in Taiwan and the Chinese government for eventual unification, oppose intervention in China's domestic affairs, promote constructive and friendly relations between the Chinese people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and between them and the people of the United States of America.