TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — China labeled the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) an “extreme anti-China” group after it met in Taipei on Wednesday (July 31).

Taiwan joined IPAC at the meeting, when the group made a statement challenging China’s interpretation of United Nations Resolution 2758. The IPAC statement said that the resolution does not indicate the People’s Republic of China has sovereignty over Taiwan.

After the meeting, State Council Taiwan Affairs Office Spokesperson Chen Binhua (陳斌華) told reporters in Beijing that UN Resolution 2758 “fully reflects and solemnly reaffirms the one-China principle.” He said China expresses “strong opposition” to IPAC’s statement.

Chen also noted that a small group of pro-unification protestors were outside the IPAC meeting. The Cross-Strait Peace Forum and the Taiwan Labor Party met outside the IPAC forum to protest and confronted British activist Luke de Pulford and said foreign politicians have no right to interfere in other countries' domestic politics.

President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) addressed IPAC on Tuesday, and said that China’s interpretation of UN Resolution 2758 is a “distortion of history.” He also said Taiwan will pursue “four pillars for peace,” a concept he first outlined in 2023.

UN Resolution 2758, passed in 1971, states that the “government of the People's Republic of China are the only lawful representatives of China to the UN.” It also gave the UN Security Council's China seat to the People's Republic of China, which before that was held by the Republic of China (Taiwan).

The resolution expelled “the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石)” from the UN, but the word “Taiwan” was not included in the text. Chiang was the leader of the ROC (Taiwan) and the KMT when the resolution was passed.

The UN's legal affairs office rejected an application made by the Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) administration to include Taiwan in the body in 2007. The office said the application was rejected on the basis that UN Resolution 2758 affirms the body's support for the one-China policy.