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http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20230420-204551-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/context-is-open-to-interpretation-too/ Context Is Open to Interpretation, Too - A Response to Taiwan and the Myth of UN General Assembly Resolution 2758 Kuo, Ming-Sung eng 2023-04-20 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 International Law One China Principle Resolution 2758 Taiwan Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Taiwan is no longer ‘The Orphan of Asia’ as depicted in a 1983 mandarin Chinese pop song that gave expression to the Taiwanese’ feelings of betrayal and abandonment, after the US ‘recognize[d] the Government of the People’s Republic of China [PRC] as the sole legal Government of China’ in 1979 and withdrew its troops from the island. Today Taiwan is one of the most discussed geopolitical hotspots. In this contribution, I aim to take the discussion of Taiwan’s legal status forward in response to Wu and Lin’s outright rejection of the Resolution’s bearing on the Taiwan question, by drawing attention to the complexity of the context in which the Resolution was adopted.