Cutting through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story.
This is The Point.
Have you noticed there is increasing talk about a certain United Nations resolution numbered 2758?
In the Taiwan press, it felt relentless.
2758 this, 2758 that.
We asked a data analysis company to count exactly how many times the issue came up over the past three years.
You know what?
There's been a spike.
In 2024, the number reached some 3,000 articles more than the previous two years combined.
There were some 800 in the month of September alone.
What is this document all about in the first place?
For that,
travel with me half a century back in time to 1971 to the United Nations headquarters in New York.
The 26th session of the UN General Assembly,
the main policymaking body of the United Nations, was gripped by a heated debate.
Who should represent China?
Mind you, this was 22 years after the People's Republic was founded.
Chiang Kai-shek, the former leader of China,
had been defeated in the civil war and escaped to Taiwan.
Having lost his legitimacy, Chiang's people illegally held on to China's seat at the UN.