On September 3, China will mark the 70th anniversary of the victory against Japanese aggression in World War II. But history casts a long shadow, and even today the experiences of #WWII continue affecting the bilateral relationship.
In today’s 70 Seconds, 70 Years, we will look back at the Cairo Conference of November 1943 and the Cairo Declaration, by which China, the United States and Great Britain told the world that they would not stop fighting until Japan’s unconditional surrender.
After the five-day meeting, Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, the leaders of the Three Great Allies, vowed in the Cairo Declaration that Japan would be expelled from all territories it had taken with violence and greed.
The Three Allies demanded in the Declaration that Japan must return “all territories stolen from China,” including three northeast provinces, Taiwan and Penghu.
The Cairo Declaration is also included in the Potsdam Declaration, which later became a guiding document whereby the territorial issues between China and Japan was handled.
Wang Yizhi reports
