Chinese Ambassador Pens article in German Media

On September 1, 2025, the German media outlet Table Media published a signed article by the Chinese Ambassador to Germany in its Table Briefings channel titled “Learning from History – Guided by Values into the Future” (鑒往昔而知來 行正道以致遠). The article employed official Chinese Communist Party terminology to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, characterizing it as the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War (中國人民抗日戰爭暨世界反法西斯戰爭勝利80周年). This framing, which differs from international usage of “Second Sino-Japanese War” or “World War II,” serves to bolster the CCP’s historical legitimacy and its narrative placing itself at the center of the defeat of fascism. The article further invoked the phrase “Liberation of Taiwan” (光復台灣) to assert Chinese sovereignty over Taiwan, declaring that “the one-China principle has been a global consensus since World War II” (一個中國原則已然是二戰後的世界共識).