Changing sovereignty Lin points out that the incidents and international agreements that have affected sovereignty over Taiwan include the following: (1) At the end of the first Sino-Japanese War in 1895 the Treaty of Shimonoseki ceded sovereignty over Taiwan and Penghu to Japan "in perpetuity."
治台主權的移易林滿紅指出，歷史上影響台灣的領土歸屬與主權移轉的事件及國際條約包括：（1）1895 年清軍甲午戰敗，與日本簽訂《馬關條約》，台灣、澎湖主權「永久割讓」日本。