The value of "Enemy State Clauses" 81 years after the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War

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  Thursday marks the 81st anniversary of the victory of the Chinese

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  People's War of Resistance against Japanese aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War.

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  In the aftermath of the war, the UN Charter introduced the enemy state clauses,

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  special provisions for defeated aggressors, to prevent them from threatening peace once more.

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  Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun stresses the clauses remain

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  valid and urges Japan to make a clean break with militarism.

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  On September 2, 1945, the Japanese government officially signed the Instrument of Surrender

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  and accepted all the terms of the Potsdam Proclamation, establishing the undeniable historical conclusion

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