What if the UN charter had made specific mention that a permanent member would hold their seat indefinitely, without referendum and without being replaced by another body claiming to represent that state?
???What if the UN charter had made specific mention that a permanent member would hold their seat indefinitely, without referendum and without being replaced by another body claiming to represent that state?
Well playing Devil's advocate.
Technically the P.R.C. is an illegal association of provinces in open rebellion against the Republic of China, and was treated as such for many years. If they didn't have nuclear weapons and a somewhat shakey relaitionship with Russia I doubt the US would ever have allowed them to claim China's seat on the secruity council.
If UN insists on that, we could have a lot more monarchy survives in UN.
Ethiopian Emperor, Iranian Shah, Yemen Imamate etc still hold their seat. and all revolutionary regime that happen after their nation join UN would be unrecognized.