110 Airborne Reconnaissance Systems, Sniper Ad-
vanced Targeting Pods, Field Information Commu-
nications Systems, and recertification of MIM–104 
Patriot Missiles. 
(6) Defense Security Cooperation Agency 
(DSCA) data indicates that Taiwan was the United 
States’ largest Foreign Military Sales customer in 
fiscal year 2020. 
(7) DSCA data also indicates that from fiscal 
years 1950 through 2020, Taiwan was the United 
States’ third-largest Foreign Military Sales cus-
tomer, tied with Japan. 
(8) The Taiwan Assurance Act of 2020 (sub-
title B of title III of division FF of Public Law 116– 
260), states, ‘‘the United States should conduct reg-
ular sales and transfers of defense articles to Tai-
wan in order to enhance its self-defense capabilities, 
particularly its efforts to develop and integrate 
asymmetric capabilities, including undersea warfare 
and air defense capabilities, into its military forces’’. 
(9) Subparagraph (A) of section 1260(b)(1) of 
the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2021 (Public Law 116–283) states, ‘‘[the 
United States should continue] supporting acquisi-
tion by Taiwan of defense articles and services 
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through foreign military sales, direct commercial 
sales, and industrial cooperation, with an emphasis 
on capabilities that support the asymmetric defense 
strategy of Taiwan, including anti-ship, coastal de-
fense, anti-armor, air defense, undersea warfare, ad-
vanced command, control, communications, com-
puters, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, 
and resilient command and control capabilities.’’. 
(10) Subparagraph (B) of section 1260(b)(1) of 
such Act further states that the United States 
should continue supporting the development of de-
fense forces necessary for Taiwan to maintain a suf-
ficient self-defense capability by ‘‘ensuring timely re-
view of an response to response to requests of Tai-
wan for defense articles and services’’. 
(11) In its 2019 Recommendations to Congress, 
the bipartisan U.S.-China Economic and Security 
Commission issued the following judgement: ‘‘Con-
gress [should] raise the threshold of congressional 
notification on sales of defense articles and services 
to Taiwan to the highest tier set to U.S. allies and 
partners. Congress [should] also terminate any re-
quirement to provide prior notification of mainte-
nance and sustainment of military equipment and 
capabilities previously sold to Taiwan.’’. 
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SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) enhanced support for defense cooperation 
with Taiwan is critical to the national security of the 
United States, including through designation of Tai-
wan as a member of the colloquially titled ‘‘NATO 
Plus’’ community of states, which presently includes 
Japan, Australia, the Republic of Korea, Israel, and 
New Zealand, with respect to consideration by Con-
gress of Foreign Military Sales to Taiwan, as well 
as all other rights, privileges, and responsibilities af-
forded to such community of states; and 
(2) Taiwan should be so designated as a mem-
ber of the ‘‘NATO Plus’’ community of states. 
SEC. 4. ENHANCED DEFENSE COOPERATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—During the 5-year period begin-
ning on the date of the enactment of this Act, Taiwan 
shall be treated as if it were a country listed in the provi-
sions of law described in subsection (b) for purposes of 
applying and administering such provisions of law. 
(b) PROVISIONS OF LAW DESCRIBED.—The provi-
sions of law described in this subsection are— 
(1) subsections (b)(2), (d)(2)(B), (d)(3)(A)(i), 
and (d)(5) of section 3 of the Arms Export Control 
Act (22 U.S.C. 2753); 
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(2) subsections (e)(2)(A), (h)(1)(A), and (h)(2) 
of section 21 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 2761); 
(3) the matter following subparagraph (P) of 
subsection (b)(1) and subsections (b)(2), (b)(6), 
(c)(2)(A), (c)(5), and (d)(2)(A) of section 36 of such 
Act (22 U.S.C. 2776); 
(4) section 62(c)(1) of such Act (22 U.S.C. 
2796a(c)(1)); and 
(5) section 63(a)(2) of such Act (22 U.S.C. 
2796b(a)(2)). 
(c) CONTINUED APPLICATION.—The Secretary of 
State is authorized to continue to apply this section with 
respect to Taiwan for additional 5-year periods beginning 
after the end of the 5-year period described in subsection 
(a) if, with respect to each such additional 5-year period, 
the Secretary— 
(1) determines that such continued application 
is in the national security interests of the United 
States; and 
(2) submits such determination to the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions of the Senate not later than 14 days before the 
start of such additional 5-year period. 
Æ 
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