Taiwan said China's reaffirmation that "Taiwan is part of Chinese territory" is intended "to lay the groundwork for an attack on Taiwan."
According to Reuters on the 1st (local time), Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that day, "China's mention of the resolution (U.N. General Assembly Resolution 2758) is to change the status quo in the Taiwan Strait and to establish the legal basis for future military attacks on Taiwan." It added, "Only the democratically elected government in Taiwan can represent the 23 million people of Taiwan within the U.N. system and multilateral international mechanisms."
Earlier, on the 30th of 4th, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a "position paper of China on U.N. General Assembly Resolution 2758," asserting that "the status of Taiwan as part of Chinese territory has not changed so far and will never be allowed to change."
U.N. General Assembly Resolution 2758, adopted in 1971, recognizes the People's Republic of China (China) as the representative of China in the U.N., and after the resolution's adoption, the Republic of China (Taiwan), a founding member of the U.N. and a permanent member of the Security Council, was expelled from the U.N.
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, "A very small number of external forces arbitrarily claim that 'there is no wording such as "Republic of China" or "Taiwan" in U.N. General Assembly Resolution 2758,' and therefore 'the resolution has nothing to do with Taiwan,'" adding that it is the U.N.'s consistent position that Taiwan does not have the status of a government.
The U.S. State Department, in comments to Reuters regarding the latest announcement by China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said, "The deliberate distortion and misuse of Resolution 2758 is part of China's broader coercive effort to isolate Taiwan in the international community." It added, "The resolution places no restrictions on any sovereign nation's choice to engage with Taiwan in a substantive manner."