Editing Chinese unification (section)

=== Pan-Blue interpretation ===
The Japanese Instrument of Surrender (1945) is seen by the Pan-Blue camp as legitimizing the Chinese claims of sovereignty over Taiwan Island which were made with the 1943 Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Declaration (1945).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://thediplomat.com/2015/08/taiwans-opposition-needs-to-get-clear-on-the-countrys-sovereignty/|title=Taiwan's Opposition Must Get Clear on the Country's Sovereignty|last=Huang|first=Eric|date=1 August 2015|work=The Diplomat|access-date=10 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190809124447/https://thediplomat.com/2015/08/taiwans-opposition-needs-to-get-clear-on-the-countrys-sovereignty/|archive-date=9 August 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> The common Pan-Blue view asserts that Taiwan Island was returned to China in 1945. Irredentist in nature, those who possess this view commonly perceive Retrocession Day to be the conclusion to a continuous saga of reunification struggles on both sides of the strait, lasting from 1895, the year that Taiwan Island was ceded to Japan, up until 1945, the end of the Second World War. Hence, there is a common view among the Pan-Blue camp that the island of Taiwan was always a Chinese territory under Japanese occupation and never belonged to Japan, neither legally nor in spirit. The Cairo Declaration, Potsdam Declaration, and Japanese Instrument of Surrender are seen as proofs that the Treaty of Shimonoseki was nullified in its entirety in 1945, hence proving that the island of Taiwan always rightfully belonged to China throughout those fifty years of reunification struggles. Shortly following these events, the island of Taiwan was split from mainland China again, according to the common Pan-Blue view, marking the beginning of another reunification saga. Still, the Pan-Blue camp considers both Taiwan and mainland China to be currently under Chinese rule, with the division between the island of Taiwan and mainland China merely being internal, rather than directly the result of outsider aggression; this view is demonstrated through the 1992 Consensus, which some allege to be an agreement reached between officials of both the Kuomintang and the CCP in 1992. The notion of 1992 Consensus is that there is One China and that the island of Taiwan is part of China, but that the legitimate government of China can be interpreted differently by the two sides of the strait.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

ROC singer [[Teresa Teng]] performed in many countries around the world, but never in [[mainland China]]. During her 1980 [[Taiwan Television|TTV]] concert, when asked about such possibility, she responded by stating that the day she performs on the mainland will be the day the [[Three Principles of the People]] are implemented there – in reference to either the [[Democracy movements of China|pursuit of Chinese democracy]] or reunification under the banner of the ROC.<ref>{{Cite AV media|title = 鄧麗君國父紀念館演唱會 1980年10月4日 | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RWZ-PYCg60 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/6RWZ-PYCg60| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|type=Video file|via=YouTube|date= 4 October 1980|publication-date=13 January 2016|access-date=29 May 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title = PHOTO ESSAYS Teresa Teng's heavenly voice continues to echo transcendently|publisher = [[Central News Agency (Taiwan)]]|date = 5 July 2015|access-date = 29 May 2020|url = https://focustaiwan.tw/eng_forum/201505070001|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200529092651/https://focustaiwan.tw/eng_forum/201505070001|archive-date = 29 May 2020|url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cna.com.tw/project/201505_teresa_teng/|title=鄧麗君逝世20週年 追憶天使美聲|access-date=2017-04-25|work=www.cna.com.tw|publisher=[[Central News Agency (Taiwan)]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129141634/http://www.cna.com.tw/project/201505_teresa_teng/|archive-date=2018-01-29|url-status=dead}}</ref>