Xi Jinping said that "Taiwan's return to China" was the result of victory in World War II. Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs denounced this as confusing right and wrong.

Chinese President Xi Jinping published an article claiming that "Taiwan's return to China" was the result of victory in World War II, and endorsed it with the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Proclamation; the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs denounced this as confusing right and wrong and contrary to facts, and that the two documents were signed in 1943, when the People's Republic of China did not even exist.