Document guided Japanese surrender of stolen territories

A document issued during World War II was a significant legal basis for China to have retrieved its territory, including Taiwan, after the war, Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said on Thursday.

"The Cairo Declaration provided an important basis in international law for China to recover, after World War II, its territory, which had been robbed and stolen by Japanese militarism, including Taiwan and its affiliated islands," Geng said in a daily news conference in Beijing.

Commenting on reports that authorities in Taiwan will remove content related to the declaration from the new high school curriculum, Geng said the declaration is "universally acknowledged" and is "a major outcome gained in the World Anti-Fascist War".