I 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5902 
To establish a Congressional Advisory Commission on the Implementation 
of United States Policy under the Taiwan Relations Act. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 6, 2012 
Mr. ANDREWS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To establish a Congressional Advisory Commission on the 
Implementation of United States Policy under the Tai-
wan Relations Act. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. FINDINGS; PURPOSE. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) The Taiwan Relations Act (Public Law 96– 
8; 22 U.S.C. 3301 et seq.), enacted in 1979, has 
continued for 33 years to be the cornerstone of 
United States–Taiwan relations and has served as 
an anchor for peace and security in the Western Pa-
cific region. 
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(2) The Taiwan Relations Act declares that it 
is the policy of the United States— 
(A) to preserve and promote extensive, 
close, and friendly commercial, cultural, and 
other relations between the people of the United 
States and the people on Taiwan, as well as the 
people on the China mainland and all other peo-
ples of the Western Pacific area; 
(B) to declare that peace and stability in 
the area are in the political, security, and eco-
nomic interests of the United States, and are 
matters of international concern; 
(C) to make clear that the United States 
decision to establish diplomatic relations with 
the People’s Republic of China rests upon the 
expectation that the future of Taiwan will be 
determined by peaceful means; 
(D) to consider any effort to determine the 
future of Taiwan by other than peaceful means, 
including by boycotts or embargoes, a threat to 
the peace and security of the Western Pacific 
area and of grave concern to the United States; 
(E) to provide Taiwan with arms of a de-
fensive character; and 
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(F) to maintain the capacity of the United 
States to resist any resort to force or other 
forms of coercion that would jeopardize the se-
curity, or the social or economic system, of the 
people on Taiwan. 
(3) Nothing contained in the Taiwan Relations 
Act shall contravene the interest of the United 
States in human rights, especially with respect to 
the 
human 
rights 
of 
all 
the 
approximately 
23,000,000 inhabitants of Taiwan. The preservation 
and enhancement of the human rights of all the peo-
ple on Taiwan are hereby reaffirmed as objectives of 
the United States. 
(4) The Taiwan Relations Act, in furthering the 
national interests of the United States in the West-
ern Pacific region, has mandated that the United 
States will make available to Taiwan such defense 
articles and defense services in such quantity as may 
be necessary to enable Taiwan to maintain a suffi-
cient self-defense capability, thus allowing the people 
of Taiwan to preserve a peaceful, democratic, and 
prosperous way of life. 
(5) The future of Taiwan must be determined 
in a peaceful manner and with the assent of the peo-
ple of Taiwan. 
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