China – then in the third year of Mao Zedong’s rule – was not even invited to participate in the peace conference. Although Mao’s communists had clearly won the civil war and secured control of mainland China, the conference organizers disagreed about which government – Mao’s People’s Republic of China (PRC) in Beijing, or Chiang Kai-shek’s Republic of China (ROC) in Taipei – truly represented China.
中国当时是毛泽东治下的第三年，甚至没有被邀请参加和平会议。尽管毛手下的共产党人已经毋庸置疑地赢得内战、取得了中国大陆的控制权，会议组织者仍然无法就北京以毛氏为首的中华人民共和国政府还是台北蒋氏中华民国政府真正代表中国达成一致。中华人民共和国因此否认有遵守条约的义务。