H.R. 2113

119th CONGRESS 1st Session

To require agencies to use the term instead of , and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES · March 14, 2025 · Sponsor: Mr. Donalds · Committee: Committee on Foreign Affairs

Table of contents

• H.R. 2113
  • SEC. 1. Short title
  • SEC. 2. Findings; purpose
  • SEC. 3. Agency requirement to use

SEC. 1. Short title

• This Act may be cited as the America Supports Taiwan Act.

SEC. 2. Findings; purpose

• (a) Findings
  • Congress finds as follows:
    • The United States Government has never officially recognized the People’s Republic of China’s claim of sovereignty over Taiwan.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • The People’s Republic of China refers to Taiwan as a and to the President of Taiwan as , consistent with its assertion that Taiwan is a region of the People’s Republic of China. the leader of the Taiwan region
    • Taiwan and mainland China are separated by a 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, , 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. there is no so-called median line in the Strait
    • 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.
    • Many people of Taiwan see the 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. Chinese Taipei
    • In Mandarin Chinese, Taiwan uses a version of in which is the cultural term and does not have sovereignty connotations. Chinese Taipei zhonghua
    • Comparatively, the Chinese-language translation of 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. Chinese Taipei
• (b) Purpose
  • It is the sense of Congress that—
    • the United States must stand firm in the commitments it made in the Taiwan Relations Act (), 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 22 U.S.C. 3301 et seq.
    • 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
    • the United States Government disfavors the use of the nomenclature, and instead favors the use of so as to avoid connotations of possession with the 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. Chinese Taipei Taiwan

SEC. 3. Agency requirement to use

• Agency requirement to use
• (a) In general
  • The head of an agency may not use and shall use , except— Chinese Taipei Taiwan
    • in historical context explaining the People’s Republic of China’s attempt to control Taiwan through persuasion and coercion; or
    • 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.