Sponsors (8)
Introduced March 11, 2026 by Daniel Scott Sullivan · Last progress March 11, 2026
The bill strengthens U.S. deterrence and speeds authorities to arm Taiwan and punish aggression—providing clearer targets and faster enforcement—but does so at the cost of sizable economic disruption, greater operational and market risks, reduced diplomatic flexibility, higher compliance burdens, and some civil‑liberties and procedural concerns.
Taxpayers, military personnel, and U.S. businesses: The bill affirms and clarifies a strong U.S. commitment to Taiwan and regional stability, which is intended to deter PRC coercion and help protect trade routes and supply chains.
Military personnel, policymakers, and the U.S. financial system: The bill enables faster, clearer authorities to provide defensive arms and to impose rapid sanctions/asset blocks against hostile actors, strengthening the U.S. ability to punish or deter aggression against Taiwan quickly.
Financial institutions and regulators: The bill provides clearer statutory definitions (e.g., “financial institution,” “sanctioned person,” “knowingly,” and listed PRC bodies) that reduce legal ambiguity and help standardize compliance and sanctions enforcement.
Importers, consumers, and U.S. businesses (especially those with China exposure): Rapid high tariffs, broad investment bans, and other economic countermeasures could sharply raise import costs, increase consumer prices, disrupt supply chains, and harm exporters and small firms.
Financial institutions, investors, and markets: Prohibitions on transactions, trading bans, blocking access for PRC banks, and restrictions on global financial communications risk sudden market disruption, settlement failures, and significant operational strain on banks and brokers.
Military personnel and taxpayers: Formalizing stronger defense obligations and more robust responses could increase U.S. defense spending and raise the risk of heightened tensions or military incidents involving U.S. forces.
Based on analysis of 10 sections of legislative text.
Requires frequent presidential findings on PRC hostile acts toward Taiwan, mandates asset‑blocking sanctions and visa bans for designated actors, and creates an expedited congressional review process.
Requires the President to make rapid, recurring determinations about whether the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese Communist Party, or related actors are engaging in or imminently planning hostile acts against Taiwan and to designate and sanction those actors. It creates a set of defined hostile acts (military invasion, blockades, attacks on critical infrastructure, seizures of territory, etc.), mandates asset‑blocking sanctions and transaction prohibitions under emergency economic authorities, cancels visas for sanctioned aliens, and sets narrow waiver and exclusion rules. The bill also creates an expedited congressional process to consider a joint resolution tied to these determinations and provides detailed definitions and implementation rules for sanctions, penalties, and enforcement.