go tell it to the Horse('s mouth)

good stuff from John Tkacik on the San Francisco Treaty and Treaty of Taipei in today's letter "All were clear on treaty"

President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) seems to be laboring in a bit of confusion as he ponders the 1952 Treaty of Taipei ... There was no such confusion among the signatories of the San Francisco Treaty ... Nor was the Republic of China’s (ROC) foreign minister George Kung-chao Yeh (葉公超) confused. At the San Francisco Treaty, US delegate John Foster Dulles admitted it “would have been neater” if the treaty specified precisely “the ultimate disposition of each of the ex-Japanese territories” but cautioned that to do so “would have raised questions as to which there are now no agreed answers.”

The British delegate stated: “The treaty provides for Japan to renounce its sovereignty over Formosa and the Pescadores Islands. The treaty itself does not determine the future of these islands.”

The Soviet delegate was indignant that “this draft grossly violates the indisputable rights of China to the return of integral parts of Chinese territory: Taiwan, the Pescadores, the Paracel and other islands … The draft contains only a reference to the renunciation by Japan of its rights to these territories but intentionally omits any mention of the further fate of these territories.”

read the rest of it
learn it by heart
and get ready to recite it to any KMTer you meet on the bus