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Until [[1991]], the ROC also actively claimed to be the sole legitimate government of China, and during the [[1950s]] and [[1960s]] this claim was accepted by the [[United States]] and some (though far from all) of its allies. While the PRC was an ally of the [[Soviet Union]], the U.S. sought to prevent the Communist bloc from gaining another permanent seat in the [[Security Council]]. To protest the exclusion of the PRC, Soviet representatives [[Soviet Union and the United Nations|boycotted the UN]] from January to August of 1950 and their absence allowed for the intervention of [[Korean War|UN military forces in Korea]].
 
In [[1952]], the ROC complained to the UN against the Soviet Union for violating the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance of [[14 August]] [[1945]] and the [[Charter of the United Nations]]. The [[UN General Assembly]] has found that the Soviet Union prevented the National Government of the ROC from re-establishing Chinese authority in [[Manchuria]] after [[Japan]] surrendered and gave military and economic aid to the Chinese Communists, who founded the PRC in [[1949]], against the National Government of the ROC. [[UN General Assembly Resolution 505|Resolution 505]] was passed to condemn the Soviet Union with 25 countries supporting, 9 countries opposing and 24 countries abstrainingabstaining.
 
The ROC used its veto once - in [[1955]], the ROC representative cast the only Security Council veto blocking the admission of the [[People's Republic of Mongolia]] to the United Nations on the grounds that all of Mongolia was part of China. This postponed the admission of Mongolia until [[1960]], when the Soviet Union announced that unless Mongolia was admitted, it would block the admission of all of the newly independent African states. Faced with this pressure, the ROC relented under protest.