Taiwan ’s government on Wednesday accused China of attempting to justify a future attack through a “misleading” interpretation of a key UN resolution, amid rising tensions over the island’s sovereignty.

China says that 1971’s U.N. resolution 2758, which led to Taiwan’s expulsion from the body and Beijing assuming a seat at the U.N., gives international legal backing to its claims over the island, and reiterated that point in a long foreign ministry statement late on Tuesday.

Taiwan, formally called the Republic of China and whose government fled to the island in 1949 after losing a civil war with Mao Zedong’s communists, says that it is nonsense given that the resolution made no mention of Taiwan and that, in any case, the People’s Republic of China has never ruled the island.

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