Owing to the fact that Hitler’s Germany had unleashed a fascist war of
aggression that undermined world peace and had supported Japan’s war of
aggression against China, China proclaimed itself to be in a state of war with
Germany on December 9, 1941. After the Hitlerian aggressors were wiped out,
the Potsdam Conference of 1945 resolved that Germany ought to develop into
a peaceful, democratic, and unified state and also decided on the approach to
concluding a peace treaty with Germany.376
However, because of the policy consistently pursued by the United States,
Britain, and France of dividing Germany, reviving militarism in West Germany in order to bring it into aggressive military blocs, Germany is still divided
and it is still impossible to conclude a peace treaty with Germany. Now the

three countries, the United States, Britain, and France, are all actively plotting
by implementing the Paris agreements377 to further obstruct the peaceful unification of Germany and the conclusion of a peace treaty with Germany, thus
posing a serious threat to peace and security in Europe.
The People’s Republic of China resolutely supports the German Democratic Republic and the people of all of Germany, as well as the Soviet Union and
all peace-loving countries and peoples, in their struggle to attain the peaceful
unification of Germany, the promotion of the conclusion of a peace treaty with
Germany, the safeguarding of European collective security, and the defense of
world peace. At the same time, [the People’s Republic of China,] in the interests of the Chinese people and the people of all Germany, and based on the
resolution adopted by the Ninth Meeting of the Standing Committee of the
First National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China on April 7,
1955, proclaims:
The state of war between the People’s Republic of China and Germany
shall end forthwith. Peaceful relations between the two countries shall be established.
The termination of the state of war between the People’s Republic of China
and Germany does not in any way change Germany’s international obligations.
At the same time it also does not in any way affect the rights or commitments
of the People’s Republic of China under international agreements relating to
Germany.
(Signed as chairman of PRC and dated)
Source: People’s Daily, April 9, 1955.