The right to self-determination of peoples is a basic principle of international law, recognized in numerous texts and resolutions, which has allowed the creation of new States since the end of World War II. Invoked in the creation of the UN, it was later developed with a clear objective: to allow the process of decolonization to those peoples that were under the control of a foreign power. Since then, it has been applied to different situations until today
After defeating China in their first war (1894-1895), Japan forced the Chinese empire to cede the island of Taiwan in 1895. And in 1910, the Japanese empire annexed Korea.
