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Cairo Conference

The Cairo Conference was a meeting between allied World War II leaders British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in Cairo in November 1943.

They discussed their plans regarding how to shape post-war Asia after the imminent Japanese surrender and made a non-binding declaration that Japan will be to return all territories it seized from China, including Taiwan and the Penghu Islands. The Cairo Declaration was later referenced in the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, which is a legally binding document.



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References

  1. Rigger, S. (2011). Building Taiwan. In: Why Taiwan Matters. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
  2. Metzler, J.J. (2017). Return to Chinese Rule 1945-1950. In: Taiwan’s Transformation: 1895 to the Present. Palgrave Macmillan.
Allied leaders Winston Churchill, Chiang Kai-shek and Franklin D. Roosevelt meeting in Cairo, 1943, National Portrait Gallery