America Supports Taiwan Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2113 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2113

  To require agencies to use the term ``Taiwan'' instead of ``Chinese 
                   Taipei'', and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 14, 2025

 Mr. Donalds (for himself, Mr. Collins, Mr. Tiffany, and Mr. Moore of 
   Alabama) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require agencies to use the term ``Taiwan'' instead of ``Chinese 
                   Taipei'', and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``America Supports Taiwan Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSE.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds as follows:
            (1) The United States Government has never officially 
        recognized the People's Republic of China's claim of 
        sovereignty over Taiwan.
            (2) The People's Republic of China, led by the Chinese 
        Communist Party, seeks to control Taiwan through means of 
        persuasion and coercion, and potentially compellence.
            (3) The People's Liberation Army seeks to have the 
        capability to invade Taiwan by 2027, the 100th anniversary of 
        the founding of the Chinese Communist Party's military, the 
        People's Liberation Army.
            (4) The People's Republic of China refers to Taiwan as a 
        ``region'' and to the President of Taiwan as ``the leader of 
        the Taiwan region'', consistent with its assertion that Taiwan 
        is a region of the People's Republic of China.
            (5) Taiwan and mainland China are separated by a ``median 
        line'' in the Taiwan Strait, which acts as an unofficial 
        boundary that was generally respected from 1999, until 
        September 2020, when a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman 
        stated, ``there is no so-called median line in the Strait'', 
        and People's Liberation Army aircraft and vessels have 
        repeatedly crossed the median line since then, as more than 
        1,400 PRC aircraft reportedly crossed the median line in 2024.
            (6) An accounting, based on Taiwan Ministry of National 
        Defense reporting, of incursions into Taiwan's de facto Air 
        Defense Identification Zone by PRC military aircraft 
        illustrates a sharp increase over time, with approximately 
        3,075 incursions in 2024, up from approximately 390 in 2020, 
        illustrating a more confrontational posture toward Taiwan and 
        honing military capabilities required to conduct combat 
        operations near Taiwan.
            (7) Many people of Taiwan see the ``Chinese Taipei'' 
        nomenclature as a symbol of oppression from the People's 
        Republic of China, originally stemming from an effort to find a 
        way for both Taiwan and the People's Republic of China to 
        participate in the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics and the 
        1980 Moscow Summer Olympics.
            (8) In Mandarin Chinese, Taiwan uses a version of ``Chinese 
        Taipei'' in which ``Chinese'' is the cultural term ``zhonghua'' 
        and does not have sovereignty connotations.
            (9) Comparatively, the Chinese-language translation of 
        ``Chinese Taipei'' carries the connotation that Taiwan is 
        culturally Chinese, and thus the English term can be easily 
        misunderstood to connote PRC possession of Taipei, and by 
        extension, all of Taiwan.
    (b) Purpose.--It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) the United States must stand firm in the commitments it 
        made in the Taiwan Relations Act (22 U.S.C. 3301 et seq.), 
        which declares that it is the policy of the United States to 
        ``maintain the capacity of the United States to resist any 
        resort to force or other forms of coercion that would 
        jeopardize the security, or the social or economic system, of 
        the people on Taiwan'';
            (2) the United States Government continues to support 
        Taiwan and enable it to maintain a sufficient self-defense 
        capability as it withstands control-seeking persuasion and 
        coercion from an increasingly aggressive People's Republic of 
        China; and
            (3) the United States Government disfavors the use of the 
        ``Chinese Taipei'' nomenclature, and instead favors the use of 
        ``Taiwan'' so as to avoid connotations of possession with the 
        ``Chinese Taipei'' term in English and support resolution of 
        cross-Strait differences by peaceful means, free from coercion, 
        in a manner acceptable to the people on both sides of the 
        Strait.

SEC. 3. AGENCY REQUIREMENT TO USE ``TAIWAN''.

    (a) In General.--The head of an agency may not use ``Chinese 
Taipei'' and shall use ``Taiwan'', except--
            (1) in historical context explaining the People's Republic 
        of China's attempt to control Taiwan through persuasion and 
        coercion; or
            (2) to the extent that the head of the agency is working on 
        matters relating to Taiwan with an international organization 
        at which Taiwan is a participant under a different official 
        name.
    (b) Requirement To Update Agency Websites.--Not later than 14 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the head of each agency 
shall ensure the website of the agency meets the requirements of this 
section.
    (c) Agency Defined.--The term ``agency'' has the meaning given that 
term in section 551 of title 5, United States Code.
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